You put some inputs in, it has a contract that says if you put the right kind of inputs in you'll get a specific output coming out, but you don't have to know what's inside of that box.

你可以将输入一些内容,它相当于一个条件合约,如果你的输入是正确的，你就能得到特定的输出,但是你不知道盒子里面有些什么。

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And conceptually, the idea of cubing a value feels like you could package that up into a little box, a little tool that takes input, a value, and returns output the answer A* so you don't have to constantly do A star, A*A So this program ,at the end of today, is pretty much the same thing.

概念上，算一个值的立方就像是,你可以把一个值打包放在一个小盒子里,一个用来接收输入的工具,一个值，然后返回一个答案,所以你并不需要一直使用，等等。，A，star，，A，，and，so，forth。,这个程序，最后，是一个差不多的东西。

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