And this is because as you start writing--saving files to your hard drive, what happens is you might save this file here, then this one, then this one, then this one, but very reasonably you might go back eventually and delete this one.

这是因为当你开始对硬盘驱动器进行读写时,你可以保存一个文件到磁盘的某处，然后再一个，再一个，又一个，最后你可能回到这,并删除这一个文件。

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The bits are still there, much like bits are still left when you erase a file on your hard disk but they're forgotten about.

二进制数还在那里，就像你在硬盘上删除一个文件,二进制还在那里,但是它们被遗忘了。

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