"But to spur lending to small businesses, it is essential that we make more credit available to the smaller banks and community financial institutions that these businesses depend on,".

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So this is very similar, this is a kind of recursive thinking we talked about earlier, where we take our problem and we make it smaller we solve a smaller problem, et cetera.

我们则跳过比猜想数小的那个区间,然后我们重复这一过程,跟之前我们讲过的，递归思想非常类似,我们解决问题的时候,先把问题一步步变小，然后解决小问题。

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So if you think of a shell, you can actually just think of an egg shell, that's probably the easiest way to think of it, where the yolk, if you really maybe make it a lot smaller might be the nucleus.

可以把它想成，个蛋壳，这也许是，最简单的思考办法,蛋黄如果，缩小非常多倍的话,就可以想象成核子。

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I didn't just make it one smaller, I made it a half smaller. That's a nice deal.OK.

我把它的规模减半了，这太棒了，好，但是我不会直接处理b是偶数这种情况的。

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