And I take that to be the paragraph where he talks about what fiction has done for him specifically.

重申了,这种念头，“,绕了一圈。

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Having done that, I could do the same thing, so I suppose I take this branch, I can pick a spot like, say, this one, and look there.

再从其中随即选取一个元素，比如这一个，请注意，如果相等则结束，如果不相等的话就在它的左边或右边找。

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On the other hand, if I want to sort it first, OK, if I want to do sort and search, I want to sort it, it's going to take n log n time to sort it, and having done that, then I can search it in log n time.

我先排序，好的，如果我想排序再搜索，我要排序，这需要花n，log，n时间排序，然后做完了，我们能花log，n时间搜索,啊，哪一种更好呢？恩，呵呵。

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