In the phonebook, I just kept dividing and dividing Mike Smith and dividing into half and in the end I found Mike Smith 50 or I found the number 50.

在电话簿的例子中，我先将其划分为两部分,接着再划分，最后就可以找到,或者数字。

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Mike Smith I'm looking for Mike Smith.

我要找。

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> So dive right into the middle so if you would now simulate would a typical human might do, where would you dive in first to find Mike Smith?

直接翻到中间,你现在模拟的是每一个正常人都会做的事，要找Mike，Smith你第一次会先翻到哪儿？

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I see no Mike Smiths because I'm on page 1 A where the A's simply are so I turn to the B's and the C's S and the D's and so forth and finally I get to the S's but in the worst case I've looked through 1,000 or so pages.

第一页没有找到叫Mike，Smith的人1,因为第一页姓名首字母是,于是我又接着找B，C，D……最终到了字母,但最坏的情况是,我翻了几千页才找到。

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There are some thousand pages in this book, and I the human could certainly find Mike Smith every easily, very correctly by starting, if you'll simulate from the front of the phone book on page 1, looking for Mike Smith.

这本书有上千页，如果从电话薄的第一页开始找起，我当然能轻松且准确地找到,每一个叫Mike，Smith的人。

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