It's how you can initialize a variable to like zero for counting's sake or something like that.

你可以初始化一个变量，像0用来,计数的或者诸如此类的。

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You don't have to count all the leaves on the tree, you can take a sample and you count that and then you multiply.

你不必数树上所有的叶子,你可以抽样,然后计数,再相乘即可

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Because even though it's a little confusing or a little sort of contradictory, the argument count includes the name of the program itself, -- which can actually be int useful because if someone -- if a producer changes the name of a program by renaming a file, you, the program still have access to your own name by this mechanism.

因为即使它有点迷惑的,或有点冲突的，参数计数包括程序的名字，那个可以是int型的，因为如果有谁-,如果程序员通过重命名改变了一个程序的名字，你仍然可以用这个机制,使用你自己的名字。

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