So the integers are totally ordered the reals are totally ordered lots of things are, the rationals are totally ordered.

对正数来说,这样的序列是排好序的,对实数也是如此,对很多事情都是如此。

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So if you now reverse the story that we're telling here, what was the next line supposed to be after sorting left half?

回退到这个过程中来，在对左半部分排完序后，下一步该做什么呢？

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I have sorted with the smaller problem 1 because that smaller problem right now is of size 1 and so it's sort of obviously the case that this cup is now sorted.

对这个较小的问题我已经排好序了,因为在这个小问题中只有1个元素1,那么很明显,这个杯子已经是有序的了。

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- So again, if you're unwinding what's going on here, this-- we sorted the left half which meant sort the left half, then the right half then the merge.

同样，如果你展开正在进行的一切-,我们已对左半部分排好了序，接着右半部分，接着合并。

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We don't seem to be doing that just yet, certainly not as badly, alright, so at this point in the story I have a sorted list of size 4.

当然现在我们不需要那样做,此时此刻,我已对整个问题中大小为4的列表排好序了。

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