It's OK to use certain fundamental constants that come in a lot of calculators, so there's nothing we can do about that. That's OK.

当然允许使用,一些普通计算器里都有的基本常数，我们不会连这些都不让用，这是没问题的。

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In a high-level language, square root might simply be a primitive that you can use rather than you having to go over and code it.

一个高级的语言，平方根可能仅仅,只是你能使用的一个基本要素,而不是你需要去编译它。

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This is another concept that is very basic to statistics, but it has particular use in finance, so I'll give you a financial example.

这是统计学中又一个基本概念,在金融学中广泛使用,那我就举一个金融领域的例子

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Right, the first skill we want you to acquire, is we want you to be able to use the basic tools of computational thinking to write small scale programs.

好，我想让你们掌握的第一个技能就是，希望你们能使用,计算思维的基本工具,来编写小规模的程序。

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So one of the questions is, well, what are the right primitives to use?

因此问题之一是，好吧，要使用的正确基本类型是什么呢？

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