So you have to somehow convert the source code, the C code into 0s and 1s and for that process there exist this tool called a compiler that someone else wrote that takes this stuff as input and produces this stuff as output.

所以你必须把源代码，即C语言代码转换成二进制文件,这个过程就需要我们提到的编译器了,它是由别人编写的一个软件，以这些代码作为输入,将会产生的输出。

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First of all, two parameters. It's OK. All it says is, when I call this, I need to pass in two parameters for this to work. All right? Now, if I want to use that, I'm going to use a second piece of code here, called Barnyard. I'm going Barnyard to read in a couple of values, convert them into integers, and then I'm going to use solve to get a solution out.

注意我得到了什么,第一，两个参数,它的意思就是我调用这个函数，我得给它输入两个参数，明白了吗？,现在如果我要使用它我得用,这里的第二段代码，也叫,我将读入一组值，将它们转化为整型,然后我会用solve得到一个解决方案。

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