Hooker left half his men at Fredericksburg, in front of Lee's army.

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And when I do this test, what I want to do, is say I'm going to pick the middle spot, and depending on the test, if I know it's in the upper half, I'm going to set my start at the mid point and the end stays the same, if it's in the front half I'm going to keep the front the same and I'm going to change the endpoint.

如果我知道目标数可能，再比中值点大的区间里，我可能就会把开始点设为中值点,而尾点不变，如果在小的那个区间里,就保持开始点不变而把尾点设为中值点，你们可以看到这儿的代码,就是这么做的,对不对？它是怎么做的？

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I need you tear not the page out; I need you to tear this phone book in half in front of 500 of your peers.

我不是要你仅仅撕下来那一页;,我要你当着500位同学的面,把整个电话薄撕成两半。

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> So now that might not have felt like the fastest algorithm but think about what you could have done with that algorithm in each iteration, much like the phonebook up front here, you literally split that problem in two because on each iteration roughly half of you were sitting down and then another half and then another half.

虽然这并不是最快的算法,但如果把这种算法每次迭代,就像刚才查电话簿一样，你便将这个问题一分为二了,因为每一次迭代后只有一半坐下来,以此类推。

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