My friend Ezra Block read about the Buddha's special abilities in a book called the Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah. We've been exchanging notes.

我的朋友以斯拉·布洛克在一本名为《数字通史》(乔治斯以弗拉著)中读到佛陀的特殊才能。

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In the long history of mankind, humans who use numbers are a very small minority.

在人类漫长的历史中，使用数字的人占极少数。

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Each day that Elop spent in charge of Nokia, the company's market value declined by $23 million, making him, by the numbers, one of the worst CEOs in history.

埃洛普执掌诺基亚的每一天，公司的市值都缩水了2300万美元，从数据上看，他是史上最糟糕的首席执政官之一。

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That's when a new manager appears subsequent to the beginning of the ten-year period; they'll put not only the new numbers in, but they'll take the history of the new manager and put that history into the database.

即在10年期开始后,每出现一位新的基金经理,不仅是新的业绩数字会进入数据库,新经理的历史记录,也会填入数据库

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