And the smaller and smaller you make your measuring units, the longer the answer you're going to end up getting.

你的测量单位越小，最终得到的答案就越长。

Eventually, you can approach the molecular level for your measuring units and the answer for the river's length will end up approaching infinity.

最终，你的测量单位可以接近分子水平，而河流长度的答案最终将接近无穷大。

It isn't the numbers on a clock that keep our society functioning on time, measuring the basic unit of time is far more critical, the hidden anchor at the foundation of modern life.

让我们的社会按时运转的不是时钟上的数字，测量基本的时间单位要重要得多，它是现代生活基础上的隐藏锚。

But if you shortened your measuring units down to 50 km you'd end up using 68 of them and get an answer of 3400 km which is 600 km longer than your first measurement was!

但如果你把测量单位缩短到五十公里，你最终会测出68个测量单位，得到的结果就是三千四百公里，比你第一次测量的长度多出六百公里！