But if, at any point, I get to a place in the list where the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the element in the list, I know everything else in the rest of the list has to be bigger than that, I don't have to bother looking anymore.

比当前位置数组的元素要小,我也就知道后面的数肯定,也都比我的目标数要大了，我就不用再继续进行下去了,这意味着目标数不在这个数组中，我就可以退出了。

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I don't get... feel like everyone's kind of in a smaller confined area here and LA is... everyone's spread out, so.

我从没有过其他人这种感觉……他们觉得这是个小地方，而洛杉矶是非常广阔的。

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Moving a stack of size 3, again, if I want to go over there, I need to make sure I can put the spare one over here before I move the bottom one, I can't cover up any of the smaller ones with the larger one, but I can get it there.

移动上面的三个圆盘的话，我在移动最底下的圆盘之前，同样要确保剩下的,是在另外一个柱子上，因为我不能把大的圆盘,放在小的上面。

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If it's there, I'm done, if not, I keep walking down, and I only stop when I get to a place where the element I'm looking for is smaller than the value in the list., in which case I know the rest of this is too big and I can stop.

并且保持遍历,我只在当当前位置的数组元素,大于目标数时停止,这意味着剩下的元素都比目标元素大，但是其他的情况,我还是要遍历完整个数组。

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And as long as that smaller computation reduces to another smaller computation, eventually I ought to get to the place where I'm down in that base case.

如果我不属于基础事件,那么我需要把它简化为更简单的计算，随着计算的不断简化,最终我能分解成基础事件。

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