And I know how long a piece they want. Then I daydream a lot, trying to figure out what might be interesting for that group to do."

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That didn't work. Well they couldn't figure out what was wrong. And they spent a long time trying to debug the program.

调试这个程序,那时候当然不叫调试了,然后他们发现了问题。

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This was known for a long time, but it took Mr. Einstein to figure out why nature is behaving in that fashion.

这一点在很早以前就人所共知了,不过是爱因斯坦先生解释了,大自然为什么以这种模式运行

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The 2.21m (7ft 3in) long figure was made in 1981 and placed outside the Moore Sculpture Gallery extension.

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"It didn't take customers long to figure out that there was more value in the foot-long, " said Dennis Lombardi, executive vice president of food-service strategies at restaurant development firm WD Partners.

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But, no, it took a long time to figure out how long to stir, how fast to stir.

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