Now I'm in better shape, right? Especially for really large n or for a lot of k, because now in general, this is going to be smaller than that.

很大的k也大的情况,因为这样这就比这个小了,这种情况是分摊。

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So if on each iteration of merging I'm doing eight things or more generally, N. That then begs the question, how many levels of this tree are there actually?

可见对于合并我需要迭代8次,一般情况下是N，这取决于具体问题，那么在这棵树中一共有多少层呢？

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Again, the reason for that is because the energy only depends on the n value here, it doesn't depend on l or on m.

因为，能量,只和n的值有关，与l和m的值无关。

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So I'm not going to worry whether this item is a vase or a watch or painting I'm just going to say it's the n'th element.

所以我不用担心这个物品,是花瓶还是手表或者油画,我只要说这是第n个元素就好。

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