And I'm inclined to think, "Yes." In fact, I already suggested as much when I talked about the chess-playing computers.

我倾向于认为,有,实际上,当我在谈会下象棋计算机时,我已经暗示过很多次了

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And so this, in fact, when you say your computer stores information as zeros and ones, A you've just typed the capital letter A, that's all that's going on inside.

事实上，当你说电脑以这些0与1进行信息存储时，你已经键入了大写字母，那就是在计算机内部发生的过程。

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Okay, so when you are working with source material that looks like this, there is in fact no such thing as infinite zoom in computer science.

当我们处理,这样的原数据时，事实上计算机科学中,并不存在无限放大。

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But whatever your reason for being here this is in fact our introduction to Computer Science; and contrary to what you might have heard or seen or perceived in high school, odds are computer science is not quite what you imagined it to be.

但是不管你们来这儿的原因是什么,这门课介绍的都是计算机科学,可能与你们平时听到的看到的,或者在高中时所想象的恰好相反,计算机技术的优势完全不是你想象的那样。

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But at the end of the day, and here's why we just went with binary and not decimal years ago, when you have one implement a computer with a physical device, it's actually really easy to represent the notion of on or off.

但是最终，之前我们采用二进制,而不是十进制，主要是因为当我们用一台实体机器运行计算机时，这实际上很容易用开或者关的概念来表示。

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One of the discomforts, one of the reasons that I think so many people in society and even in this class are uncomfortable when it comes to computers and intimidated by technology and kind of throw up their hands when things go wrong that you don't understand is frankly not necessarily your fault.

当我想到在社会中，即使在这个班级上,有那么多的人,使用计算机时是不舒服的,他们被这种科技吓到了，束手无策,当发生故障时，你也不知道，其实,这也不是你的过错。

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So what would be the letter A in binary inside of a computer's memory when you hit the letter A on the keyboard, for capital A?

当你敲击键盘上的字母A时,那么在计算机二进制的存储中,字母A是什么样的呢？

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But one of the teaching fellas also passed long to us recently, a little real world example of what happens when you're not mindful of various data types and you're not mindful of the imprecision that's inherent in representing data in a computer, at least using a language like C and low level primitives like floats and even doubles.

最近有个助教告诉我们，一个现实世界中的例子,当你不注意各种各样的数据类型,也不注意在计算机中表示数据时,其内在的不精确性，至少在用像C语言,和float甚至double型数据时，那将会发生什么？

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