And I take that to be the paragraph where he talks about what fiction has done for him specifically.

重申了,这种念头，“,绕了一圈。

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If it's at that point, I'm done, if not, if it's greater than the value I'm looking for, I either take one half or the other.

那么我就取左边，否则的话就取右边，好，你们可以明白，我们一次就可以缩小问题规模的一半了吧。

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There's even eating meditation, you did it once with me, and I've done this in other places where you take a raisin and you put it into your mouth, and you take a minute to eat this raisin.

甚至还有食禅，我们一起试过一次，我也在别的地方试过,你拿着一粒葡萄干,放入嘴中，花一分钟时间吃掉这粒葡萄干。

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Having done that, I could do the same thing, so I suppose I take this branch, I can pick a spot like, say, this one, and look there.

再从其中随即选取一个元素，比如这一个，请注意，如果相等则结束，如果不相等的话就在它的左边或右边找。

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On the other hand, if I want to sort it first, OK, if I want to do sort and search, I want to sort it, it's going to take n log n time to sort it, and having done that, then I can search it in log n time.

我先排序，好的，如果我想排序再搜索，我要排序，这需要花n，log，n时间排序，然后做完了，我们能花log，n时间搜索,啊，哪一种更好呢？恩，呵呵。

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