Here he is in his paper and says at that time I decided that it was advantageous to find a more general system of the elements and here is my attempt.

他在论文中说，当时,我觉得发现更多,的元素的通用系统是很有用的,这就是我的计划。

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By the time of the American Revolution these are the elements that were known.

到了美国革命的时候,这些元素都已知了。

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So supposed that I give you 16 elements to sort, well, following the logic before, the running time involved in sorting 16 elements is gonna be twice the running time 16 of sorting 8 elements, left half and right half plus 16 - and again, a little sanity check, 16 means-- just the merge steps, right?

现在要对16个元素进行排序，根据之前的逻辑，对16个元素排序,要花的时间是对8个元素排序所花时间的,2倍，分别用于左半部分和右半部分，再加上6,这里16是-,做合并的步数，对吗？

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If I'm using algorithm that I'm now calling merge sort, T the running time involved in sorting N elements, T of N, you know, is just the same as running the algorithm for the right half, plus what's this plus N come from?

如果我用归并排序算法，对N个元素其运行时间，就等于此算法一半元素的运行时间,另一半的运行时间，再加上N，这个N是什么呢？

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