Roberts has spent much of his working life collating the data on which the study was based.
罗伯茨花费很多工作时间来整理检点数据,以此作为该研究的基础。
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This setting gives the federated compiler the option of allowing the data source to perform operations that are affected by different collating sequences -- because numbers are always sorted the same.