"But to count, an animal has to recognize that each object in a set corresponds to a single number and that the last number in a sequence represents the total number of objects," New Scientist added.

“一种动物要能够算，它必须知道一组物品中的每一件东西都和某一数字相对应，而最后的那个数字代表的是物品的总数。”《新科学家》说。

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In these languages, numeric functions generally apply to each element in a sequence of elements, but also to an individual number.

在这些语言中，数学函数通常应用于元素序列中的每个元素，但也会应用于单个数字。

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The take function is used to take a certain number (in this case, 10) of elements from a sequence.

take 函数用来从一个序列中取得一定数量（在本例中是 10）的元素。

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The result is variation in the number of copies of that sequence, a variability we call CNV.

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