It's an example of a very common tool that's going to be really useful to us, not just for doing search, but for doing a whole range of problems. That is, in essence, the template the describes a log style algorithm.

不仅仅是做搜索,还可以解决一整类问题,本质上，这个模板就描述了,对数形的算法,我们一会再回来。

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And the change was, that in this case, if I'm doing a single search, I've got a choice.

这个改变是，在这种情况下，如果我要做单一检索，我就面临一个选择。

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In binary search-- ah, there's that wonderful phrase, this is called a version of binary search just like you saw bin-- or bi-section methods, - when we were doing numerical things- in binary search, I need to keep track of the starting point and the ending point of the list I'm looking at.

就是当我们处理数字的时候，所称的二分检索，在二分法搜索中,我需要记录区间的开始点和尾点，初始化的时候就是-,问题输入的开始点和尾点，当我开始做测试的时候,我想要做的就是去取中值点。

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