Now as an aside, I'll admit this is a completely useless program, much like the first couple of ones we did because why would you write a program just to solve this?

说点题外话，我承认这是一个完全无用的程序，跟我们之前写的两个程序一样,我们为什么需要写个程序来解决这个数学运算呢？

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Then we walked up to 43rd Street to where I happened to know I could get someone to let me into a locked building where we could charge our now almost dead, though also useless where we live, phones.

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