It was a complete waste of time, unless the goal in life was simply to pester the user for some input.

刚才的时间就完全浪费了，除非那个唯一的目的,是简单地纠缠用户索要一些输入。

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It's defined in CS50's library; its sole purpose in life is to ask the user for a floating point value and return it.

它被定义在CS50的函数库中，它的唯一目的是,向用户询问一个浮点数的值，然后返回它。

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