OK. So, what do I want you to take away from this? This idea of binary search is going to be a really powerful tool. And it has this property again, of chopping things into pieces.

从这里学到些什么？二分查找的思想,是一个非常有用的工具,我重复一遍，把问题拆成几部分来解决,那事实上，这里的增长率是多少？

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it's too easy but it's also too delicious to take this little biographical fact of Milton's college nickname and use it in some way as a tool for reading A Mask.

这简单却有趣,把弥尔顿大学时的昵称记事,利用并作为一种工具去阅读《面具》

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it was reversible, so you can give people money and take it away, and you could actually scale the amount of money, so it makes a very handy experimental tool.

这个过程是可逆的，这样你可以给人钱，然后拿走，而且你还可以积攒钱，这就让钱成为了一种非常有用的试验工具。

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