So you're implementing this black box, and if its purpose in life is to actually return a value, you have to tell the compiler what kind of value to expect, and this is going to have ripple effects.

你在实现这个黑盒子，如果它的目的是,返回一个值，你必须告诉编译器你期望的是什么类型的值，这个将是一个连锁反应。

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Now, the one that we're most interested in ANS is the one where, in fact, it gets out ANS, so you see down here in the code, there's a spot where it's going to return the value of ANS, which is what we want, right? That's the thing that holds the value that we intended to have.

现在我们最感兴趣的是这个,事实上它返回的是，所以你看这段代码,在这里返回ANS值,也就是我们想要的,对吧？,它就承载了我们想得到的值。

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