Which are actually things that take in a value and ask the computer to do something with it.

这其实也就是让计算机,对某个值进行某种操作。

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Here I actually need to tell the computer, "Give me some bytes in ram in which to store a value, and that value's going to be a floating point value."

这里我的确需要告诉计算机，“给我一些字节内存,来存储一个值，那个值将是,浮点型的数值“

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