Sometime later, I will deal with functions of more than one variable, which I will briefly introduce to you, because that may not be a prerequisite but certainly something you will learn and you may use on and off.

再过段时间,我要开始处理多变量函数,到时候我会向你们进行简单介绍,因为那不是必须的,但是你们以后会学到,有时候还能派上用场

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So I start this program by declaring as I did before a global variable X. It is global simply because it is not inside any of my functions.

在程序的开始，我声明,一个全局变量X，它是一个全局的,因为它不在任何一个函数里面。

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