But we know already from week zero that computers ultimately represent all information with numbers, and if they want to represent letters inside memory, well what do they do or what do they use?

但是自从上周我们已经知道,计算机最终是用数字来表示所有的,信息，如果它们要描绘,在内存中的字母，它们该怎么做，用什么方式呢？

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Instead, right off the bat you have some stupid number and you are dragging that through the calculations.

相反，在交卷时，你得到一些愚蠢的数字,并且你还把它用在整个计算中。

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And, that gives you a number for the fluorine, minus 0.29. Now, if you do the same for the hydrogen, you'll come up with the same number.

然后给出F的数字，负的0。29，如果同样的用H来计算，你会得到一样的答案。

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