U.S.officials said they were hopeful the 7,000 figure for new allied forces would be just a starting point, and that additional commitments could come as soon as a NATO force-generating meeting set for next week in the Belgian city of Mons.

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In binary search-- ah, there's that wonderful phrase, this is called a version of binary search just like you saw bin-- or bi-section methods, - when we were doing numerical things- in binary search, I need to keep track of the starting point and the ending point of the list I'm looking at.

就是当我们处理数字的时候，所称的二分检索，在二分法搜索中,我需要记录区间的开始点和尾点，初始化的时候就是-,问题输入的开始点和尾点，当我开始做测试的时候,我想要做的就是去取中值点。

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So the flaw in the argument that Chris and Ryan had -- it isn't a bad argument, it's a good starting point but the flaw in the argument, the mistake in the argument was the first sentence in the argument.

所以克里斯和瑞恩的说法的漏洞在于,这并不是一个错误的说法,这是一个很好的出发点,但其中存在漏洞,其中的漏洞在于第一句话

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