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There is no Zen master to prod you with a stick, but I have some questions for you. Your answers will indicate what you have learned so far. If you are in doubt you can consult Chapter 2 for explanations.

Thanks to its uncompromising attention to generality and performance one expert has deemed the standard-library random number component as "every random generator library wants to be when it grows up."

I've had a lot of fun recently posting about how to do stuff on the command line in Linux. My focus is specifically for Ubuntu users, but the information and techniques can be used for any Linux distro.
Since I'm probably going to end up with a lot of content under this topic, I've decided to create a dedicated tag: Mastering the Command Line. I've gone through my older posts on this topic and tagged them as well. So, make sure to check out Mastering the Command Line if you want to know how to become a command line power user.

... You will also be expected to surrender any electronic devices notebooks. (If you're very nice to the proctors, they might give them back to you once you're done.)

Keeping up to date with released packages that are useful to users is a challenge.
(容易断句不当, 产生歧义).

As a corollary of computing the exact result, the rounding mode setting of a MathContext object with a precision setting of 0 is not used and thus irrelevant.
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There will be either one line or two lines containing a sequence of numbers counting down.
（「a sequence of numbers counting dow」指的是 「10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2」 这样数列）
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