And so this, in fact, when you say your computer stores information as zeros and ones, A you've just typed the capital letter A, that's all that's going on inside.

事实上，当你说电脑以这些0与1进行信息存储时，你已经键入了大写字母，那就是在计算机内部发生的过程。

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The process to control it is intriguing and interesting but the heart of the computer is simply this notion that we build our descriptions, our recipes, on a sequence of primitive instructions.

这个控制它的过程很耐人寻味，很有意思,但是计算机的核心仅仅只是,我们在初始指令序列上，建造描述、方法的一个概念罢了。

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What that means, in a stored-program computer, is that I can provide to the computer a sequence of instructions describing the process I want it to execute.

它的意思就是说，我可以给一个存储程序计算机,提供一系列,描述我希望,能执行的过程的指令。

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