You might remember vaguely logarithms from high school math and such but what this suggests for us , the computer scientists, is that this is certainly a smarter, a faster algorithm.

你可能还会依稀记得,高中数学里的对数,这就给了我们这些计算机科学家们，一些启示,即，这种算法更智能，更迅速。

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