they may even have an impact on the heart's electrical function.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Because it was in the 1950's or so, maybe the late 1940's, that people started to discover lithium, even though it had no natural function, it did do something in our bodies.

因为在二十世纪五十年代左右，可能是四十年代末期，人们开始发现锂，尽管不参与人体的正常生理活动，但是它确实会对我们的身体产生影响。

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So that's a shot fired across the bow against the author because it's Barthes' supposition that the author isn't maybe even quite an author function because that function may be hard to identify in a discrete way among myriad other functions.

因而这是对作者的警告,因为巴特推测,作者可能甚至都不是功能性的,因为这种功能可能很难通过分离的方式,在很多其他功能中被辨认出来。

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The answer is I can't. OK, in the simple case of integers I can, but in the case of something more complex like faces or fingerprints or passwords for that matter, it's hard to design a hash function that has completely even distribution, meaning that it takes any input into exactly one output spot.

答案是我不能，好吧,在简单的整数的例子中,我可以做到，但是在一些更复杂的场景中,比如面部，指纹，密码相关的问题中，很难设计一个哈希函数具备完全平均的分配,也就是说，做到对任一输入，可以准确地得到相应的唯一输出,因此在一个哈希问题中。

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So even though increment is obviously increment declared and defined in this function, it's later; so it's too late for me to use it in main.

很明显，即使在这个函数中,已经声明和定义;,也太迟了，以至于，我在main函数中不能使用它。

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