And the obvious question I could start with is, and suppose I ask you, how long does the algorithm implemented by this program take to run?

我开始这个话题的第一个问题是，假设我问你，由这个算法实现的程序大概,要运行多久才能给出答案？

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Well, we saw the teaser in terms of that animation that suggests this merge sort algorithm when implemented by a computer is absolutely faster.

我们从前面的动画中可以看到,这个归并排序算法在计算机上实现之后,绝对比其他算法更快。

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