This is useful especially when we get to details like forensics and looking at data on a hard drive, - 'cause if you don't know how much store-- how many bits are composing your file, you're never gonna recover that data or be able to access what you're looking for.

这是很有用的，尤其是在法庭上,查看硬盘驱动器里的数据时，如果你连-,文件有多少比特都不知道，你如何去恢复数据,获取你想要的信息呢。

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So with an integer, an int data type, you can store any number between 0 and 4 billion roughly.

只要有一个整数，一个int型的数据，就能储存任意一个,位于0到40亿之间的一个数。

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To do that the data travels from RAM along with software signals that tell the hard drive how to store that data.

为了能让数据从RAM中,到硬盘是要使用软件信号告诉硬盘,如何存储这些数据。

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And I don't quite remember from reading or from class how big these things are, well, it turns out -- and this is sometimes useful, later on more likely than now -- but C has a size of operator that takes an argument in parenthesis and it will tell you how much space is used to store that particular data type.

我不太记得类中的这些类型,是多大的，嗯，结果是--这个在以后比现在，可能是更有用的--不过C语言中有个sizeof的操作符,其中括号里有一个参数,它会告诉我们，要存储一个类型的数据,需要占用多大空间。

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