Basic idea, before I even look at the code, is pretty simple. If I've got a list that is sorted, in let's call it, just in increasing order, and I haven't said what's in the list, could be numbers, could be other things, for now, we're going to just assume they're integers.

我们可以说基本的思想是很简单的,如果我有一个排好序的数组，让我们认为这个数组是递增的吧，我并没说数组里元素是什么，可能是数字，也可能是其他的东西，现在我们假设是integer类型的数字吧，最简单的方式就是这么做了：

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