So it turns out that he could have picked anything to explain this, and hopefully done out the calculation, and we'll do this ourselves.

结果是他可能用任何事情,来解释这个说法，有希望完成这个计算，而且我们将自己做这件事。

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Seven comparisons, right?

是我花了多少次操作来完成这件事？

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And then one of the things that I suggested was that if we could figure out some way to order it, and in particular, if we could order it in n log n time, and we still haven't done that, but if we could do that, then we said the complexity changed a little bit.

这就涉及到了排序,如果可以想出一种来将其进行排序,甚至可以在n，log，n的时间内完成,虽然目前我们没做这件事,但是一旦开始做这件事,那么复杂性就是发生一些变化。

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