The action of mathematics on art has both the tool function and thinking's.

数学对艺术的作用，既有着工具的功能，又有思维的功能。

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Successful design of tools for the material removal processes requires, above all, a complete understanding of cutting tool function and geometry.

为材料的去除工艺而成功设计的刀具，首先需求的是对工具功能和形状的彻底了解。

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Jazz is not just intended to integrate existing point tools, but also to provide a platform upon which to build much more integrated lifecycle tool function than previously possible.

Jazz不仅旨在集成现有的点工具(point tool)，而且还旨在提供一个平台，在该平台上可以构建比以前更加集成的生命周期工具功能。

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I want the function, which is a little tool, a line of code I can include in my own programs and generally those tools live in sections two or three of the manual.

我想要一个函数，那是一个小工具，在我程序中可以包含的一行代码,通常这些工具在手册的第二节,或第三节。

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So a function is just a little tool.

对，就是函数。

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The standard library, that first line of code, it's not strictly necessary but any time you use a function, a tool that someone else wrote that lives in that so called library, you do need that include line as we'll see.

标准库函数--第一行代码，严格来说，不是每次都要写的，但是一旦你调用某个别人写，的函数，而这个函数又恰巧位于标准库里面,你就要像我们看到的这样，把它include进去。

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