But Dr.Brown says fingertips are not often reattached if they are the length of a fingernail or shorter.

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So if we look at its length, it's actually shorter than a single bond, but longer than a double bond.

因此如果我们看它的键长的话，它实际上比单键更短，却比双键更长。

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- And because I'm writing out a string that's the same length -- -- my strings aren't getting shorter -- it's creating this illusion of some animation.

因为我写了一个长度相同的字符串-,我的字符串不会变的更短-,它生成一个动画幻觉。

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When I look for it here I'm going to see two pieces, one that's nearly the same length and one that's much shorter.

当我去找时,就找到两个片段,一个片段差不多就是原长,另一个则短得多

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Yeah. Log. It's a good think, but why do you think it's log? Ah-ha. It's not a bad instinct, the length is getting shorter each time, but what's one of the characteristics of a log algorithm? It drops in half each time.

对了，对数，这是个好想法,但是你们为什么认为是对数呢？,啊哈，这样的本能不错，每次长度都会缩小些,但是对数算法的特性是什么。

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