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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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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