But HEPA filters cannot remove disease-causing particles smaller than zero point three microns.

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But if, at any point, I get to a place in the list where the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the element in the list, I know everything else in the rest of the list has to be bigger than that, I don't have to bother looking anymore.

比当前位置数组的元素要小,我也就知道后面的数肯定,也都比我的目标数要大了，我就不用再继续进行下去了,这意味着目标数不在这个数组中，我就可以退出了。

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OK, we're going to do this reversibly, which means we're going to slowly change the external pressure very, very slightly at a time, so that at every point we're basically in equilibrium, p2/ until the pressure reaches a new smaller pressure p2.

整个过程保持可逆，外界压强,变化得很慢，每一个瞬间,都保持平衡，直到压强减小到末态值。

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