It's easier to say, "Find a copy of Cryptonomicon" than it is to write the detailed logic for searching some database.

直接说“找一个Cryptonomicon的副本”要比编写搜索某个数据库的详细逻辑容易得多。

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READERS may be excused if they have never heard of Kinakuta. It is a tiny island dreamed up by Neal Stephenson in his novel "Cryptonomicon".

读者们可能没有听说过Kinakuta，它是Neal Stephenson的小说《编码宝典》中想象中的小岛。

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