Well the idea of a hash, in fact, what's called a hash function is to have some way of mapping any kind of data into integers.

我要怎么做？实际上想法还是哈希,通过一个哈希函数,把任何种类的数据都映射成整数。

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The idea of a function is, that I'm going to capture a common pattern of computation.

函数的目的,就是寻找计算的共同模式。

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Anybody have an idea? What's the one function of state? I'm the system, the rest are the surrounding. What's the one function of state that's constant when I'm doing all my chemical reactions to move my arms around?

态函数又是什么呢？,我是一个系统，其余的是周围的环境,那么当我在做所有的化学反应,去四处移动我的手臂的时候,什么量是常数？

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