One of the advantages of this is, that I don't have to worry about explicitly updating my variable. That happens for me automatically.

这样继续下去，这样做的一个优点是,我不用为更新变量来发愁了,程序会自动的为我进行这个操作，这一点很好。

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All right, this is actually a very old piece of imperative knowledge for computing square roots, it's attributed to Heron of Alexandria, although I believe that the Babylonians are suspected of knowing it beforehand.

好，这是一个很古老的,关于计算平方根的程序性知识，是亚历山大的海伦提出的，不过我怀疑在那之前,巴比伦人就已经猜想过了。

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Now granted we're now starting to take this all shuttle theme to an extreme perhaps, but we realized you know what, it's actually not that efficient sometimes to call a phone number, it's not that efficient to pull up the mobile web.

我们现在都已经习以为常了,我们都认为极为平常了，把这些关于班车的程序做的很好了,但我们有些时候拨打一个电话，或上一下移动网络。

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Now get int *y so now I'll use the board for things I can't really draw very well with the keyboard so what does the memory of my program look like at the moment?

现在，=，int，*y，现在我使用黑板,我用键盘画的不是很好,那么此刻，我程序中的内存看起来像什么？

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