OK. In the length of time it takes for the light to get from that bulb to the table, this machine processes two operations.

好，在灯光从灯泡到,桌子的这段时间内，电脑已经进行了两次运算了。

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So hopefully, it was a time issue in terms of looking at the periodic table, because let's have you tell me what are we looking for here?

希望刚才大家出问题的原因,是因为看周期表有时间限制，请大家告诉我,我们在这里找什么？

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A gig is 10 to the 9, so it does two operations in the length of time it takes light to get from one foot off the table down to the table. That's amazing.

因此光行进一英尺的,时间内电脑可以,进行两次基本运算,这太神奇了。

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Similarly, we find it in table salt, we're taking it in all the time, the same with potassium, think of bananas, were always eating potassium.

同样地，我们发现食盐中含有钠，而我们一直在吃盐，钾也一样，想一想香蕉吧，吃香蕉也就是在吃钾。

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Imagine I have a little lamp, a little goose- one of those little gooseneck lamps, I'd put it on the table here, I'd put the height about a f-- about a foot off the table. And if I was really good, - I could hit, or time it so that when I hurt- yeah, try again. When I turn this on switch on in the lamp, at exactly the same time, I'm going to hit a key on my computer and start it running.

想象下我有一个那种小雁颈台灯-,我把它放在桌子上，大概离桌子，有一英尺那么高吧,这样挺好的，我可以打开-,或者关闭这灯,并在这同时，我可以让我电脑,开始运行。

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