Now you might say, wait a minute. Thing's ordered, if I stop part way through and I throw away half the list, doesn't that help me? And the answer is yes, but it doesn't change the complexity.

如果我在半路上停下来,然后不去遍历剩下的数组了,这会有帮助么？答案是有帮助，但这没法改变算法的复杂度，因为我们之前怎么说来着？

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This half, I'm gonna put my finger on the 1 and notice I can do the same thing.

这一半，指向1,注意到我可以做同样的比较。

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So halfway is the right thing to do, because at each step, I'm guaranteed to throw away at least half the list. Right? And that's nice.

一半以上的元素，对不对？，这很棒，好，大家猜猜这个算法的增长率是多少？,为什么？太对了。

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Our polls show that half think this whole thing is political.

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