This can be extremely beneficial in cases where calculating every possibility is very time consuming (even if all of the transition probabilities between world states were known).

对于防止为了计算每一种可能性而进行的大量计算，以及为此消耗的大量时间（即使所有世界状态的变迁概率都已知），这样的做法是非常有益的。

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Scorpios have a very complicated personality. They are clever, uncompromising, calculating, and self-protective.

天蝎座的人拥有非常复杂的个性，他们非常聪明，从不妥协，攻于心计且善于自我保护。

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Sally: It is very important that you don't make mistakes when you are calculating those Numbers so, take my calculator.

萨利：你在算这些数的时候，千万别出错误，这非常重要，就用我的吧。

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They opened their Six Nations account against Wales with an efficient, calculating performance, which was very mature.

BBC: Six Nations: Jeremy Guscott on Ireland v England

Clauses to this effect were subsequently put into contracts that Skins signed with athletes and teams, and the firm vowed that if any of its sportspeople or teams were caught "systematically cheating" - on a regular and calculating basis - then the firm would "terminate the contract, and terminate it very loudly".

BBC: Business