multiplying factor

基本解释

The timer is also reset at this point, so the new multiplying factor is set to be doubled after five seconds, and so on.
计时器这时也重置，所以新的乘数也在 5 秒之后被设置成加倍数值，如此类推。
This makes the device suspend itself and send the current value of the multiplying factor to the controller over a second channel.
这使设备中止自身，并把乘数的当前值通过第二个通道发送给控制器。
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.
每次到期时，控制器就在 suspend 上写一个 0（也就是说，它将中止设备），并在叫作 factor 的输入通道上读取当前的乘数。

So multiplying a vector by a number means stretch it by that factor.
所以用数字乘以矢量,就相当于将它伸长了相应的倍数
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