In a high-level language, square root might simply be a primitive that you can use rather than you having to go over and code it.

一个高级的语言，平方根可能仅仅,只是你能使用的一个基本要素,而不是你需要去编译它。

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And our technologies of how to get out of that gravity well are really rather primitive.

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He said the study has also confirmed that the bristles on this "rather primitive flesh-eating dinosaur... really were feathers".

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Born in Khyber in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the border of Afghanistan, the second of five brothers, he had a rather primitive start.

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