And so when we say something is exponential, we're talking about in terms of the number of bits required to represent it.

所以当我们说某些东西，是指数增长的我们指的,就是代表它的比特数。

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And just to plant this seed with 32 bits, what's the biggest number you can represent?

而对于32比特，所能表示的最大的数是多少？

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to the n, every value in the 1 bit vector we looked at last time is either 0 or 1. So it's a binary n number of n bits, 2 to the n.

从2到n，我们上次看到的,位向量的每个值不是0就是,所以它是n，比特的二进制数,从2到。

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