That is, there would be a printed form on paper with spaces to fill in the numbers or other things.

也就是说，开始在纸上打印表格,上面留有空格需要填写数字或是其他信息。

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But we know already from week zero that computers ultimately represent all information with numbers, and if they want to represent letters inside memory, well what do they do or what do they use?

但是自从上周我们已经知道,计算机最终是用数字来表示所有的,信息，如果它们要描绘,在内存中的字母，它们该怎么做，用什么方式呢？

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Numbers are there to do numeric things, strings are our fundamental way of representing textual information.

数字是用来描述数值的，字符串是表现,文本信息的基本方式。

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Fast forward mid-semester when we talk about cryptography and scrambling information, we need the ability to express ourselves in words, not just numbers, and we have that already.

回想一下期中的时候，我们讨论过密码学,和一些不规则信息,我们需要话语来表达自己，而不是数字，其实我们已经有了。

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So, how do you go from just numbers, zeros and ones to actually useful information?

那么，你该怎样由这些数字0和,1来表述有用信息？

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