So it might be something like that, a tiny little something that one would set down like a couple of elements.

所以创作的支点可能是类似这些的，很小很小的事情，作者会把它们列出来,就像一系列元素一样。

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Again. Basic premise of binary search, or at least we set it up was, imagine I have a sorted list of elements. We get, in a second, to how we're going to get them sorted, and I want to know, is a particular element in that list..

好，二分查找的基本前提，或者是我们建立二分查找的基础,我们已经有了一个排好序的元素列表，我们就需要知道如何来快速的排序,如何从列表中找到特定的元素。

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Well, let me come up with a sample set of elements here and let me go ahead and just get some fresh white board space.

下面我用一个元素的样本集来说明,我先找一些可用的白板空间。

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Generally, there are a couple of elements that one might set down as in a Petri dish, and wait to see if some chemical reaction might take place, but not at all sure of what it might be.

一般来说，都有几个元素,作者会把它们像放入培养基中一样培养,等待某种化学反应的产生，但对可能的结果却一无所知。

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