I'm going to print here the list if we go into it, and print of the when we're done and then just return that.

注意接下我来我要做的事，运行到这里时会打印列表,并且当处理完成后会打印返回的列表。

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It took me seven comparisons, because I can take advantage of the fact I know I only ever have to look at the first element of each sub-list. Those are the only things I need to compare, and when I run out of one list, I just add the rest of the list in.

进行了7次对比，因为我可以利用我知道的优势：,每次只需要比较每个子列表的第一个元素,那才是我需要进行对比的内容,当一个列表的元素处理完了,只需要将另一个列表剩下的元素直接添加进去。

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At each stage, no matter which branch, here or here, I take, I'm cutting down the length of the list that I'm searching in half. All right?

选的是这里还是那里,我总是把列表分成两半，对吧？,所以如果我处理一个长度为n的列表？

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