That's going to presumably be given--mathematically if we gave it a number, we'd slap a zero on that.

如果用数学解释,给它一个数字，给它一个零。

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It seems like a very compelling account of what's going on in mathematics.

似乎对于数学的解释,这是一种很有说服力的说法

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So, what we're dealing here with is a situation where the ancient Greeks were very much into mathematics as a way of explaining the world and explaining music in particular And they thought these ratios were primary.

那么,我们现在要潜心琢磨,古希腊人热衷于,用数学来解释世界,尤其是音乐的这种情形,他们认为这些比例才是基础

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