You need a functional form that connects the value at one state of matter, the freezing point of water to another phase change, the boiling point of water.

你需要一个函数形式来,连接物质某个态对应的温度值，如水的冰点，和另一个相变,如水的沸点。

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C So here I'm declaring a variable called c, and I'm pretty much translating the formula from the slide using the characters on my keyboard to a floating point value.

这里我声明了一个变量，然后我把那个幻灯片上的公式,用键盘上的字符翻译成了,浮点数值。

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x It says, take the name x and create a binding for that name to the value of the sub-expression and in fact to do this, to stress a point, let's do that.

它的意思是，创建了一个名字,然后创建了对于这个名字,和子表达式的值的绑定,实际上这么做，我们是为了，要强调一个点，让我们来说说这个点。

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And really, how do we come up with the point value of launch accessibility in the first place?

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