Obviously, it is a little old, but it is funny to see what people thought about computers in 1969.

虽然有点古老，但是现在去看,1969年人们所认识的电脑，还是很有趣的。

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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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The point I'm trying to make is, fixed-program computers is where we started, but it doesn't really get us to where we'd like to be.

我要指出的一点是，我们从固定程序计算机开始说起，但它并不能让我们到达我们想去的地方。

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But a point I'm trying to make is, it sounds like anymore computers have gotten so blazingly fast, why should you worry about it?

但是这里我要讲的一点是，在任何一台计算机,都能这么快的运算的情况下，我们还管效率这个问题干嘛呢？

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That's certainly one way to do it, but for computers that's not necessarily the easiest way. So another way of solving it is to do something we already saw last time, which is basically, why not simply enumerate all possible examples and check them?

将一个等式代入另一个等式，这当然是一种办法,但是对电脑来说这绝对不是一件简单的事,所以解决这个问题的办法，正如我们上一次看过的,非常基本？

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One in the so called hundreds columns, a two in the so called tens column 2 so that's 10 times 1 plus 10 times 2 is 120, 123 plus 3 times 1, 123 alright, so completely uninteresting, if this is something long familiar to you, but it turns out computers work in exactly the same way.

这里的1处于百位，2处于十位,所以100乘以1加上10乘以，再加上1乘以3，好的，完全正确就是，但是毫无趣味，这对你是一件极其熟悉的事，但是电脑结果也是以同样的方式运行的。

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But that's not enough because computers at the end 1 of the day only understand 0s and 1s and what you and is clearly not a collection of 0s and 1s.

但是仅仅这样是不够的，计算机,最终只会认识0和,你现在得到的，c的文件显然不是0，1的合集。

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