This is the fact that we occupy a finite volume in space, because they're little hard spheres in this molecule.

这是由气体分子在空间中,占据有限体积造成的,因为事实上它们是硬的小圆球。

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So, for example: in this case, my list is a bunch of integers. And one of the things I could take advantage of, is I'm only going to need a finite amount of space to represent an integer.

列表是一系列整数,要注意的这里的优势能够,用有限的空间来表示整数,例如，如果我想要操作。

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Because you can come up with an infinite number of values but if you have a finite amount of space and certainly a computer has a finite amount of disk space or RAM, you have to make approximations.

你可能会碰到一些无限的值,如果你只有有限的空间,废话，电脑当然只有一个有限的磁盘空间,或RAM，我们得做一些近似处理。

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