if you're at X, let's just call you Mr. X, just to make it clear, so Mr. X is the person at position X.

如果你在X,就叫X先生,只是为了方便区分,所以X先生在X位置上

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And so I went through the math on this and said suppose I wanted to be really sloppy and I wanted to say if the delta X, the uncertainty in position is on the order of one angstrom.

我算完它,并说假如我想很草率,并且我想说如果x的增量，即位置的不确定度,相当于一埃。

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It also tells you that if you compress the spring, compress it means x is now-- x is measured from this position, where the spring is neither compressed nor expanded.

它还能告诉你,如果压缩弹簧,压缩就意味着现在 x...,x 是从这个位置开始算的,在这个位置弹簧既没有压缩也没有伸长

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All three have used a method called X-ray crystallography to map the position for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome.

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Like Kinect, these solutions will have a pair of 640 x 480 camera sensors to measure user position in 3D space, but don't expect them to have motorized tilt functionality or voice recognition -- PrimeSense said it won't be able to make those available for manufacturers, as they're all Microsoft ideas.

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Until the 1980s radiation oncologists could only crudely estimate where to aim based on the position of nearby bones in 2-D X rays.

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