Irving Fisher then told that story as an illustration of how poorly the understanding was of what was going on.

欧文？费雪之后讲述了这个故事，以此,来阐述人们对发生的事情,了解得到底有多少。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

His first book was a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which he completed in 1629; Thucydides, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War, who we mentioned before when we talked about Plato.

他第一本书是对',修昔底斯《伯罗奔尼撒战争》的译著，这本书于1629年完成;,修昔底斯，伯罗奔尼撒战争中伟大的历史学家，这个人在我们之前讨论柏拉图时提到过。

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And again, if I just run this, just to show that it's going to do the right thing, it says enter base, I'm obnoxious, it says oops, wasn't a float, so we'll be nice about it and I enter a height, and it prints out what I expected. I just concatenated those strings together, by the way, at the end.

我再来运行下看是不是做对了,提示输入底，噢，它提示说不是浮点数，我很高兴，然后我输入一个,浮点数作为高度显示结果和我预期的相同,顺便说一句,我只是在最后把这些字符串连接起来了。

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Yeah. You're jumping slightly ahead of me, but basically, I'm done when this is equal to 1 right? Because I get down to the base case, so I'm done when b u is over 2 to the k is equal to 1, and you're absolutely right, that's when k is log base 2 of b.

因为这就是最基本的情况了，因此当b/2的k次方等于1的时候就停止了1,你说的太对了，就是k等于b的以2为底的对数的时候,你们都坐的挺靠后的啊，我不知道是不是我讲的不太明白？

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