So the moral here, again, is whenever you're doing an implementation of a simulation, you do need to have some underlying theory about the model.

所以这里的寓意还是,不管你在做什么东西的仿真程序，你需要有一个,模型的底层程序。

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Well, you'll know when it crashes, that doesn't help you very much, but you can't always tell whether something's stuck in an infinite loop or whether it's simply taking a long time to compute.

好，你将学到它在什么时候会崩溃，这对你帮助并不大，但是你不能辨别出到底是在一个循环中,有什么东西卡住了呢,还是程序需要很长的时间来计算一个结果呢。

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