Same way that I have multiplication or division as a primitive, functions are going to give me, or somebody else who wrote them for me as part of a library, a new primitive that I'm going to be able to use.

我在用乘法或者除法当做原语,这些函数,或者别人写程序库中的函数,将会给我返回一个,我能使用的新原语。

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I've got one test there, and then I've just got one thing to do here, which has got a subtraction and a multiplication.

这儿有一个比较,然后在一个基本步骤里,做了一个减法和一个乘法两个基本操作。

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It's really the multiplication and in this case, division that the problem arises. Yeah?

这里实际上是乘法和，除法引起了那个问题，请说？

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Do the multiplication and you get an estimate of about seven million rural rats.

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