multiplying factor

基本解釋

The timer is also reset at this point, so the new multiplying factor is set to be doubled after five seconds, and so on.
計時器這時也重置，所以新的乘數(shù)也在 5 秒之后被設置成加倍數(shù)值，如此類推。
This makes the device suspend itself and send the current value of the multiplying factor to the controller over a second channel.
這使設備中止自身，并把乘數(shù)的當前值通過第二個通道發(fā)送給控制器。
Every time that happens, the controller writes an 0 on the suspend channel (that is, it suspends the device) and reads the current multiplying factor on its input channel called factor.
每次到期時，控制器就在 suspend 上寫一個 0（也就是說，它將中止設備），并在叫作 factor 的輸入通道上讀取當前的乘數(shù)。

So multiplying a vector by a number means stretch it by that factor.
所以用數(shù)字乘以矢量,就相當于將它伸長了相應的倍數(shù)
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