So if on each iteration of merging I'm doing eight things or more generally, N. That then begs the question, how many levels of this tree are there actually?

可见对于合并我需要迭代8次,一般情况下是N，这取决于具体问题，那么在这棵树中一共有多少层呢？

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You have n branches on the tree and you count the number of leaves and sum them up.

一共有n根树枝,你数了叶子的数量然后把他们加起来

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O Right there, order n. So I have order n operations at each level in the tree. And then how many levels deep am I? Well, that's the divide, right? So how many levels do I have?

在这儿,所以我在树的每个层次都要做O的操作,那个这棵有多少层呢？,这是一个除法，不是吗？

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