隔离子听力文章：关于计数的知识
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生活不如意 A new number was discovered by a team of German mathematicians in January of this year. The previously unknown integer lies in the relatively unexplored region between the numbers 88,000,002,999 and 88,000,003,000. This unexpected integer has been provisionally named “S,” for “Surpri,” until the mathematical community has determined its exact location and value.
The existence of undiscovered whole numbers in the space between known integers has long been recognized as a possibility, according to theoretical mathematician and team leader Angela Zifferling at the Institute for Polynomial Advance in Töttingen, Germany.
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Crunching Numbers
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It is largely becau we are only ud to counting up to a thousand or so in our everyda
y lives that we fail to notice the prence of so-called “inter-integral” numbers and other strange phenomena that lie in the incredibly distant regions of the number line.
As Zifferling explains： “It’s as if you only made obrvations from here to the moon, and concluded that there isn’t anything much in outer space. We really have no idea what may exist in the remoter regions of the number line, becau the simple fact is that the area beyond around one hundred billion is still almost completely unexplored.”
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If confirmed, the existence of number S would make calculations involving numbers in its region much more difficult, as it will probably be found to be exerting a kind of pressure on the whole numbers on either side of it in order to fit in. Mathematicians refer to this pressure as “integral crowding,” and say that it may increasingly be a problem as we move farther and farther from zero.
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mathematician n. 数学家
党员四讲四有 integer n. [数] 整数；整体；完整的事物
theoretical adj. 理论的；理论上的；假设的；推理的香港回归20周年
