It just throws the decimal point away and that's because, again, these are ints and the answer intuitively should be a floating point value, but I need to be more specific.

它直接把小数点后面的数值丢弃掉了，因为，凭直觉，那些整型数和结果应该是一个浮点数据,但是我需要一个更精确的数值。

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And that's useful because clearly I don't need to know in advance what the answer is going to be, what that string is actually going to be.

那个是有用的，因为我不需要预先知道,那个答案将会变成什么，或者那个字符串将变成什么的时候。

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