In product placement, you might think when you're placing a gas station, you might think it would be nice if gas stations spread themselves evenly out over the town or out over the road.

在产品植入领域里,假设你在考虑设立一个加油站,你会想如果加油站,能均匀覆盖城镇每个角落,或者遍布整条公路那该多好

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You try to design actually I'm going to come back to that in a second. It's like you're trying to use a hash function that spread things out pretty evenly. But the places you store into in those lists may have to themselves have a small list in there, and when you go to check something, you may have to do a linear search through the elements in that list.

你尝试着去设计,实际上过会儿我会回头讲解这个问题,类似于你需要用一个哈希函数,非常平均的将物体分发出去,但是在列表中你数据,映射到的地方可能会有自己的一小段列表，当你回头查找数据的时候,你可能需要在那一小段列表中做线性查找。

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Yet, they wanted to get clean and so what device they used was to take oil, typically olive oil, spread it on themselves, then get a scrapper, a metal scrapper, and scrap off the oil with it what was underneath the oil.

当他们想要保持清洁时,他们所使用的东西就是油,通常是橄榄油,把橄榄油抹在身上,然后拿一个刮板,金属刮板,把污垢和油一起刮下来

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