At that point it becomes a requirements exercise... do these gateways meet my needs, and if so, why am I continuing down a slower, more costly, more laborious path to the same end goal?

此时一个需求分析问题就出现了……这些网关能否满足我的需求？如果可以的话，为什么还要继续沿着原先那条更慢、更昂贵、更费劲的道路向相同的目标前进呢？

youdao

P1 If we have a curve c, from a point p0 to a point p1 then the line integral for work depends only on the end points and not on the actual path we chose.

如果曲线c，起点为P0，终点为1，那么计算所做功的线积分，只与端点位置有关，而与我们选择的路径无关。

youdao

Whenever the work that is done - by a force is independent of its path — it's only determined by the starting point - and the end point — that force is called a "conservative force."

不管何时一个力做功，与轨迹无关-，只取决于开始点，和结束点-，这个力被称为，守恒力。

youdao

so we're going to use this concept of the path to go from the initial point to the end point.

在处理状态函数时,路径的选取。

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