Well, if we actually want to represent something like the number 7, well in binary, not actually in decimal like this.

如果你表达,类似于7的数字，在二进制中，它和十进制可不太一样。

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Voice and writing, by the way, are not a stable binary.

顺道说一句，声音和文字不是稳定的二元系统。

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Happiness is not a binary either-or, zero-one-- either I'm happy or I'm unhappy.

幸福不是二进制的非此即彼，0或-,要么幸福要么不幸福。

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Because the two are not identical despite massive amounts of scholarship that confuses this issue: thinks holy means pure, thinks common means impure, and it just doesn't: these are different binary oppositions. The two are not identical.

因为这俩并不完全相同,还是会有很多学者会弄混它们：,认为神圣的就是纯洁的，普通的就是不纯洁的，实则不然：,它们是不同的相对关系，它们并不完全相同。

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But at the end of the day, and here's why we just went with binary and not decimal years ago, when you have one implement a computer with a physical device, it's actually really easy to represent the notion of on or off.

但是最终，之前我们采用二进制,而不是十进制，主要是因为当我们用一台实体机器运行计算机时，这实际上很容易用开或者关的概念来表示。

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> >> David: So yeah, not binary per se but ASCII, right?

>，【无法辨认的声音】,>>，大卫：是这样的，不是二进制本身，而是用ASCII码，对吗？

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