It happens to be better suited for manipulating strings than numbers, for example, but it's really a general-purpose language.

例如它恰好,处理字符串,比处理数字更有效率，但是它确实是一种面向面很广的语言。

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And that was only possible because, besides using the sea, the shipping lanes for travel, which was much faster than overland travel, the Romans maintained roads.

之所以能达到这个数字，原因之一是走海路，用海洋航路运输，比陆路快得多，另一个原因就是修路。

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We have to add it all up so it's not just numbers, three against one; it's also all of those people at home.

得把这些加起来考虑,所以就不只是这个数字，三比一;,还要加上这三人的家人。

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Jeremy says in the text that the geometric return is always lower than the arithmetic return unless all the numbers are the same.

杰里米在书里说几何平均,总是比算术平均小,当然如果所有数字都一样,两个均值相等

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This is in a pretty small it's bigger than Belgium, but this is a pretty small territory.

这是仍然是一个相当小的数字,只比比利时稍大一点,不过比利时的领土也是很小的

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And I can't, myself, go higher than that but you could certainly do it mathematically.

我自己不能再算比那更大的数字了,不过当然可以算出来的。

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This might be 1 in 100, 000, 000, 000 or something like that; don't write down the numbers I'm just using that for illustration.

是大约是一比一千亿那么少,不用记这个数字,我只是打个比方而已

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How many of you, excluding the people who chose 1 last time, how many of you chose a number that was lower than the number you chose last time?

出了上次选1的人,多少人选了比你,上次选择的数还低的数字

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Just to give you an example of that, for instance, I can do the following: all right, the number four is less than 4 the string three, whereas the string four, oops, is not less than the string three.

仅仅是给大家看一个例子，例如，我可以这么做：,好，数字4比,字符串3要小，而字符串，比字符串3要大。

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Basically if you have a number that's P in this case, than the number is lower then that shows increasing level of statistical significance.

基本上如果P,这幅图里的数比0.05更小,数字越小,表示统计学显著性越大

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So we've looked at how to solve square root we've, looked at two problems, I've tried to instill in you this sense of paranoia which is so valuable, and now we're going to pull back Python and return to something much simpler than numbers, and that's Python. All right?

我们已经研究了如何去求平方根,研究了两种方法,我一直在尝试着给你们逐渐灌输,要偏执的理念，这样的理念非常有价值，现在我们回过头来去学习一些,比数字更简单的东西，也就是,对不对？数学问题很难？

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STUDENT: So, the string A is less than three, is false because they're comparing like ASCII values?

学生：字符串A比数字3小，是false的原因是因为对他们,进行了ASCII值的比较么？

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Is the number on the left less than the number on the right?

是不是左边的数字比右边的数字小？

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