For this sprite only, means local, only this function, only this script can use this variable, make this variable for all sprites, meant it was global.

对于只为一种精灵，意思是局部的，只有这个函数中，这个脚本中才可以用这个变量，这个变量为全部精灵而创建，意思是这个变量是全局的。

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And when you declare a variable, whether as an argument or as literally a local variable, they only live inside of that function.

当你声明一个变量，不论是一个参数,还是一个局部变量，它们只存在函数的内部。

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Change the independent variable, find the change in the function, take the ratio and that's the derivative.

改变自变量,算出函数的变量,计算比值,这就是求导

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Let me write a function, in fact the literal thing I would do is to say, identify the things that change, give each of them a variable name because I want to refer to them, and then write a function that captures the rest of that computation just with those variable names inside.

让我来写个方法,实际上我的意思是，辨别出变化的东西,然后给它们逐个命名以区分,然后写一个用来计算,这些变量的,包括计算过程的方法。

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X So here I'm declaring another variable called X, and this is totally legitimate because I already know that if I'm implementing a function like swap or increment, I can absolutely take input.

这里我声明另一个变量，这个完全是合法的因为我已经知道,如果我执行一个像swap，或，increment的函数，我完全可以携带输入。

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