All right? If I'm gambling, I'm saying, gee, if I'm really lucky, it'll be only on this side, and I've got a little bit of work to do, but if I'm unlucky, I'm scrawed, the past pluperfect of screwed, OK., or a Boston fish.

如果我够幸运的话，目标数就会在这边的，这会大大减少我的工作量，但如果不幸运呢？我就完蛋了，我就得再从剩下的这么大的数组里找了，这很痛苦，因此选中位数是正确答案。

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You spin this big wheel and it rotates for a while and then it stops at one number, but obviously a random number, because this wheel of fortune had all the numbers from zero to one hundred.

你转动那个大轮盘,它会旋转一会儿,最后停在一个数字上,显然是一个随机数,因为幸运轮盘可以指向,0到100的的任何数

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