In fact, better than that, this guy is already sorted as well because I whittled that problem down to size 1.

事实上，更好的结果是这个杯子也是有序的了,因为我已将这个问题的规模削减到只有1个元素。

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So now thankfully I found the lightest one which happens to be this guy here and so what's just happened?

现在我找出了最轻的，它就是,这个杯子，那么刚刚发生了什么呢？

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What do I now need to do in order to sort the whole left half? Compare them all.

为了对左半部分的4个杯子排序,我需要做什么呢？，进行比较。

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And so I repeat, and so I repeat and one of the visuals meant to be conveyed by this-- this scale here is now I know that this guy is the smallest.

一次又一次地重复这样的比较,这个天平在此传达的信息是,我知道了这个杯子是最轻的。

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So this is a little scale that if you put something here or here it's supposed to tell you which one is heavier and I also have 8 cups here.

这是一个小天平，如果你在这边,或者这边放一些东西，它就会显示哪边的更重,我这有8个杯子。

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So supposed I did want to find the smallest cup here.

假如我要找出这里最轻的杯子。

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It was the right hand side that I ignored for the moment.

我暂且先忽略右手边的杯子。

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