After the Greeks laid out their fifths and fourths and whole steps, they had these little leftovers.

当希腊人安排好,五度音程,四度音程和全音级后,他们还有一些剩余

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I'll let you just grok it but you can see it's basically doing what I did over there. Setting up two indices for the two sub-list,it's just walking down, finding the smallest element, putting it into a new list. When it gets to the end of one of the lists, it skips to the next part, and only one of these two pieces will get called because only one of them is going to have things leftovers.

你们可以大体的浏览一下,但是它们基本就是我在那里所做的事情,为两个子列表设置了两个指针,指针顺着列表走下去，找到最小的元素,把它放入到一个新的列表中去,当它走到一个列表的尾部时,它会跳到下部分去,两部分中只有一个会被执行,因为只有一个会有元素剩余。

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They had these little leftovers in there and that's why we end up with these small distances between B and C That's a big step.

他们还有一些剩余,这就是为什么,B和C之间有一小段距离,这是一个大音级

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