The speaker gives his name as Charles, a 24-year-old sitting on a freshly cut log in a forest, a machete in his hand.

说话的人自称查尔斯，24岁，坐在森林里一颗新伐倒的原木上，手上握着一把砍刀。

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When you cut up a log into boards the thickness of your saw matters.

当你要把一根原木切割成一块块木板时，你的锯的厚度很关键。

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Then he got a saw from the van and cut a section out of a big log on the side of the road.

接着他从货车内取出一把锯子，在路边锯下一大块伐木。

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Cut the problem in half. Cut the problem in half again. And that's a typical characterization of a log algorithm.

是每次除以特定的量,将问题减一半，再减一半,如此，这就是对数算法的典型特性。

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A log algorithm typically is one where you cut the size of the problem down by some multiplicative factor.

对数级复杂度的算法就是指,通过一系列常量级步数的操作,可以将问题的规模。

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They took the left leg and put it on the same log and cut it off at the ankle.

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At last they took the right leg and put it on the same log and cut it off with a machete.

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The going for a fissile-material cut-off treaty at the log-jammed Conference on Disarmament could be harder still.

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