So I propose this algorithm, this program, this process for counting people in this room.

因此我提出了这种算法，这种程序和处理方法,来计算教室里的人数。

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Because the algorithm I proposed is going to leverage this idea of recursion which recall was just a piece of jargon we tossed out at the last-- at the end of last week's lecture, last time's lecture recursion really in this context refers to the act of a function calling it's self.

因为我提出的这种算法使用了,递归的思想，这是上周课程的最后,所提出的一个术语，上次的课程中，递归是指,函数的自我调用。

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So I propose this as a new algorithm for sorting N elements and being 8 in this case or really a thousand in the case of the phonebook, or anything of larger size.

所以我提出一种新的算法，来解决N个元素的排序问题,在这个问题中N是8，在电话簿的问题中N是一千,或者是大规模的任何问题。

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