Then he divided that number by the square of their distance apart.

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So, I already said what the number of square miles that were increased, but it increases from six to sixteen million of the population.

我已经提过了领土扩大的面积有多少,而人口从六百万增加到一千六百万

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It weights big deviations a lot because the square of a big number is really big.

使偏离的权重更大,一个数的平方是一个更大的数

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