So we've now whittled this problem down into half and so we can literally and dramatically throw half of the problem away.

如此一来,我们就把这个问题简化了一半,我们可以大胆的扔掉另一半。

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A mule is not spending 1/2 of its time as a donkey, and 1/2 of its time as a horse, we don't see it flickering back and forth between the two, that's not what we see.

骡子并不是一半的时间是驴，另一半的时间是马，我们不会看到它在两者之间来回变化，这不是我们所看到的情况。

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And, in any arbitrary crucible full of molten silver, half of them are going to be spin-up and half of them are going to be spin-down.

并且，在任一个浇满了熔银的坩埚中，银原子中的电子一半是向上转,另一半是向下转。

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If there's a tie, half the voters at that position go for one of the candidates and half of them go for the other.

如果是平均,一半的选票划给其中一个候选人,另一半给另一个候选人

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As I mentioned before is one example on the risk for breast cancer in women, so you'd randomly assign half to following their usual diet, the other half to an intervention program where people are prescribed a low fact diet, given counseling and interventions from dieticians and things, and then you look to see what happens for risk as people go forward in time.

我之前提过,这例子研究的是,女性的乳腺癌发病率,你将随机选择其中一半人按一般习惯饮食,另一半人则参与一个干预计划,其中每人都要食用,由营养学家设计推荐的低脂肪菜单,然后再看随着时间推移,被试者的发病率是怎样变化的

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If I'm using algorithm that I'm now calling merge sort, T the running time involved in sorting N elements, T of N, you know, is just the same as running the algorithm for the right half, plus what's this plus N come from?

如果我用归并排序算法，对N个元素其运行时间，就等于此算法一半元素的运行时间,另一半的运行时间，再加上N，这个N是什么呢？

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Just as forewarning for people who have forgotten what a median is, that means half of you--not approximately half, it means exactly half of you-- will be getting something like B+ and below and half will get something like B+ and above.

稍微提示下忘记中位数含义的同学,这也就是说,不是一半左右,是绝对一半的同学,会得到B+的成绩或更低的成绩,另一半会到B+的成绩或更高的成绩

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