Now, this is a pretty familiar widget of little gadget that you might see on most websites today, but my God, what an uninteresting problem to solve ourselves.

这是一个大家都很熟悉的小工具,现在在大多数的网站上都可以看到，天哪，如果我们自己解决这样的问题那将是多么无趣！

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It is internet accessible so you can access it most anywhere anytime and you can also access tools and software and tricks that the staff have made available.

而且可以通过网络访问,所以无论何时何地都能访问,你们也可以访问这些工具啊，软件啊，还有一些,授权访问的小诀窍。

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I want the function, which is a little tool, a line of code I can include in my own programs and generally those tools live in sections two or three of the manual.

我想要一个函数，那是一个小工具，在我程序中可以包含的一行代码,通常这些工具在手册的第二节,或第三节。

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And it turns out-- a little teaser for our security discussion as time passes that a lot of the times when software is compromised and you download Photoshop like a cracked version of Photoshop or something like that.

这对于即将讨论的安全性问题来说,只是一个小插曲，随着科技的发展,很多时候，如果工具受损,你会下载到一个版本不全的,或其他类似的东西。

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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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