Literally, return the control from this function, and take the value of the next expression, and return that as the value of the whole computation.

正如字面意义上说的，从这个函数返回，然后取得下一个表达式的值,并把这个值作为整个计算的结果返回。

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It's totally legit to cull a function, get back a value, do nothing with it other than compare it to another value.

挑选一个函数是完全合法的，返回一个值，用它来做些事情而不是用它与其它的值比较。

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PROFESSOR: And so in this case, it's using the same piece, but it's returning that middle value that says they're actually the same.

教授：那么实际在这个例子中，我们用的是同一个函数，它返回了中间的值也就是,0来表明着两个参数。

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