The whole city burned down, practically, in a terrible fire and fire insurance started to proliferate right after that in London.

大火几乎烧毁了整座城市,紧随着那场伦敦大火,火险订单的数量激增

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So, they started out there and let's say they were working down here.

那么,他们从此处开始,假设他们发展到了这里

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OK, once it gets to the end of that, what's it going to do? It's going to come down here and, oh. What's that doing? Well I cheated when I started. I said, somebody's giving me a perfect square, I'm looking for the square root of it. But suppose 15 I gave this thing 15, and asked it to run.

好，一旦到了循环的最后，程序会去做什么？程序会跳到这里来,噢，这是干什么的？好吧,当我开始的时候我有点小作弊的意思,我说过，我得到了一个完美的平方数,我要求这个数的平方根,但是假设下我得到的数是。

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So, it was in the 1600s that probability theory started to get written down as a theory and many things then happened in that century that, I think, are precursors both to finance and insurance.

所以直到十七世纪,概率论,才被记录下来,形成理论,并且在那个世纪里诞生了,金融和保险的雏形

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