This is boring. In fact, you can do some nice things to prove what is the class of functions you can compute with straight-line programs, and what you'd see if you did that is, it's not particularly interesting.

这很无聊，实际上，你可以通过做一些很有趣的事情,来证明你可以通过直线程序,来做很多功能，但是你也看到我们之前讲过的了，这不太有趣。

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And those cases are the dramatic exception and they do tell you something.

这些例子都是极为特殊的,但我们却能通过它们了解一些事情

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Take them more familiar humdrum case.

通过一些熟悉无聊的事情讨论一下。

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