And in the even case, I'd square, divide by half, call this again: in the odd case, I go b minus 1 and then multiply by a.

就直接求a的平方的二分之b次方，如果是奇数的话，就去求a的b-1次方乘以a，以此递归下去。

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and I'd only been in Times Square which really isn't what New York is like.

我当时只是去了时代广场，但它却不能展现纽约的真实面貌。

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to do sqrt, or square root-- no, I'm going to square root use sqrt, that's the name I'm using here-- square root a hundred different places in some piece of code. Without function, I'd have to copy that piece of code everywhere.

让我做一下准备,想象一下我要调用sqrt或者-,不，我会调用sqrt函数,这是我在这里用的名字，我得把这段代码到处复制。

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How about a buyout offer from, say, the French conglomerate Schneider Electric S.A., owner of U.S. electrical-equipment maker Square D?

FORBES: Attractive And Available

The Paris-based company owns a profusion of brands, including Square D circuit breakers in the U.S., and sells thousands of items for industrial automation and building management.

FORBES: How American-Style Capitalism Jolted France's Schneider Electric

Actually, it's more accurate to say that it's 95 percent BlackJack and 5 percent improvement, with a more inward-slanted, square d-pad that makes it considerably harder to accidentally hit the surrounding controls, and angled keys that offer an embedded numeric pad in the proper configuration (we appreciate what Samsung tried to do with the original BlackJack's every-other-key layout, but in practice, it just didn't work out).

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