"Some people have had these for 15 or 20 years and never been able to get one to bloom, so we are really lucky here to have one."

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All right? If I'm gambling, I'm saying, gee, if I'm really lucky, it'll be only on this side, and I've got a little bit of work to do, but if I'm unlucky, I'm scrawed, the past pluperfect of screwed, OK., or a Boston fish.

如果我够幸运的话，目标数就会在这边的，这会大大减少我的工作量，但如果不幸运呢？我就完蛋了，我就得再从剩下的这么大的数组里找了，这很痛苦，因此选中位数是正确答案。

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If it's the value I'm looking for, boy, I ought to go to Vegas, I'm really lucky.

我可能要去赌城赌一把了，我太幸运了，然后算法就结束了对不对？

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And if you are going to get one of these, you are really lucky.

如果你买一台，那就真是幸运了。

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Now I look at that element. Is it the thing I'm looking for? If I'm really lucky, it is. If not, I look at the value of that point here and the thing I'm looking for. And for sake of argument let's assume that the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the value here.

现在我们瞧瞧指向的元素,它是我们找的值么？如果足够幸运，他就是，如果不是,我们比较指向的元素,同我们要找的元素，方便起见,假设要找的元素比这里的值要小。

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But part of the process of being systematic is not assuming that I'm going to get a lucky guess. But not even thinking really hard at this point. But just pruning the search space.

但是系统化的过程是不允许,假设我做出了,一个幸运的猜测的,而是逐步缩小搜索空间。

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