Republican Senator John McCain, the party's presidential candidate in two thousand eight, praised him for his ability to reach across party lines to pass important legislation.

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And in this case, we go from 8 to 4 to 2 to 1 three times and then on each iteration of this algorithm, each pass across the board I'm touching N numbers, so that means I'm doing N things, log N times.

在这个例子中，我们从8得到4，到2，再到1，是3次,在这个算法的每次迭代中，每一趟我都会操作N个数，也就是所我每次要做N步操作，一共要做，log，N，次。

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A thousand economists, from leading universities across the country sign a public appeal to congressman and president, not to pass this bill, that it would not do what they said it would do, it would not reduce unemployment, it would in fact lead to retaliation it would make it harder for Americans to sell goods to other countries.

但有数千位经济学家，来自于全国各大院校,向国会和总统公开发出呼吁，不要通过限制进口法案，法案不会奏效，法案不会减少失业，事实上会招致报复,会让美国更难,同别国做交易。

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