are all functions of state and parameters that we can control like temperature and pressure.

公式里面的全部都是态函数,我们控制态函数的参数比如温度或者压强。

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Only the operating system has controlling of byte zero NULL in the computer's RAM and so if a function ever returns null, aka zero, well, something must have gone wrong because that can't possibly belong to me that memory because by human convention zero is owned by the operating system; not by a program I wrote.

只用操作系统在内存中能够控制,字节0，并且如果一个函数返回，或者说0，好的，可能出错了,因为那可能是不属于我的内存,因为惯例上，0是由操作系统拥有的,而不是由我的程序拥有的。

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G Here, A and G, we've already got as functions of these easily controlled, conveniently controlled state variables.

这里，A和，我们已经把它们写成了，容易控制的状态变量的函数。

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