描绘一个碳原子大小的数字在没有原子概念或者对没有构建这样的数值范围比例的社会是一点用处也没有的。

A number describing the size of a carbon atom would be meaningless in a society that had no notion of atoms or building blocks of that scale.

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马修斯计算了天空中100颗最明亮的星星之间的角距离，然后将这些数值转化为100万对随机数，这其中约有61%的数字之间没有公约数。

Matthews calculated the angular distance between the 100 brightest stars in the sky and turned them into 1 million pairs of random Numbers, around 61 per cent of which had no common factors.

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使用极大或极小的数字或者模仿从数值类型派生的私有数据类型。

Using very large or very small Numbers or emulating private data-types derived from numeric types.

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Numbers are there to do numeric things, strings are our fundamental way of representing textual information.

数字是用来描述数值的，字符串是表现,文本信息的基本方式。

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