Why 5,040, you may ask;do we have any mathematicians among us who will give me a quick answer to that?

你会问为什么是五千零四十个呢,在座的有没有数学家能快速给出答案

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You know, he's this brilliant mathematician,

你知道，他是一位伟大的数学家，

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It was invented by a mathematician called Bellman. And he was at the time being paid by the Defense Department to work on something else. And he didn't want them to know what he was doing. So he made up a name that he was sure they would have no clue what it meant.

一点儿道理也没有,它是一个叫Bellman的数学家发明的,那时受聘于国防部研究一些其它东西,它不想让它们知道她在研究什么,所以它编造了一个,它们不会知道意义的词语。

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