The answer is--this goes way back-- it's an old tradition and they used to have to do this by hand.

答案要追溯到很久之前,这是个古老的传统,他们过去用手工计算

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In this case, I'm going to get back the answer 3 F-O-O because the user typed in F-O-O, but wait a minute, what's with this?

假若这样，我得到了答案3,因为用户输入了，等一下，用这个干吗？

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We don't have to worry about how you solve it, but it's problem in mathematics and the answer will be--surprise, it's going to be oscillating back and forth and that'll come out of the wash.

我们没必要去担心这个方程该怎么解,但这个数学问题的答案将会是令人惊讶的,弹簧会来回振荡,问题就迎刃而解了

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Well, for the answer to that we have to go back to ancient Greek music theory, and when you read about this--it's really turgid stuff-- but believe it or not, I teach a course on this at the graduate level.

这个,要回答那个问题,恐怕要追溯到古希腊的音乐理论,每次读这些都会云山雾罩的,不管你信不信,我曾在研究生中开过这个课程

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