It's totally legit to cull a function, get back a value, do nothing with it other than compare it to another value.

挑选一个函数是完全合法的，返回一个值，用它来做些事情而不是用它与其它的值比较。

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Now, this is not the nicest way to do it but it'll work. I can look at the type of the value of base and compare it to the type of an actual float and see, are they the same?

这不是最好的办法但它确实有用,我可以得到底的值的类型然后,和一个真的浮点数的类型比比,看他们是不是一样？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Well, I could look at the value here, and compare it to the value I'm trying to find, and say the following; if the value I'm looking for is bigger than this value, where do I need to look? Just here.

然后把它和目标数做个比较，然后做出如下的判断：,如果目标值大于这个值;,那么我应该去哪找呢？对，应该在这里,对不对？不可能在那儿。

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