You put some inputs in, it has a contract that says if you put the right kind of inputs in you'll get a specific output coming out, but you don't have to know what's inside of that box.

你可以将输入一些内容,它相当于一个条件合约,如果你的输入是正确的，你就能得到特定的输出,但是你不知道盒子里面有些什么。

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Right. You didn't sign the social contract. I didn't sign it.

对，你并没有签社会契约，我也没有。

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Computing square root. I'm going to capture it in a piece of code, I'm going to be able to refer to it by a name, and I'm going to suppress the details, meaning inside of that computation, you don't need to know what it does. You just need to know, if I give it the right kind of input, it'll give me back an input that satisfies the contract that I set up.

比如计算平方根,我会用一段代码来说明,我将给它命名,并且忽略细节,意思就是在这一段计算过程中,你不用知道它做了什么，你只需知道，如果我进行了正确的输入,它将会给我符合条件的输出。

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