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| Before formally discussing algorithms, there's an interesting fact worth sharing: **you have already unconsciously learned many algorithms and have become accustomed to applying them in your daily life**. Here, I will give a few specific examples to prove this point. | ||
| Before we start discussing about algorithms officially, there's an interesting fact worth sharing: **you've learned many algorithms without realizing it and are used to applying them in your daily life**. Here, I will give a few specific examples to prove this point. |
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Maybe the "unconsciously" is better than "without realizing it" for the Chinese idioms "不知不觉".
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Thank you for pointing that out!
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| **Example 1: Looking Up a Dictionary**. In an English dictionary, words are listed alphabetically. Suppose we're searching for a word that starts with the letter $r$. This is typically done in the following way: | ||
| **Example 1: Looking Up a Dictionary**. In an English dictionary, words are listed alphabetically. Assuming we're searching for a vocabulary that starts with the letter $r$, this is typically done in the following way: |
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The vocabulary is the total number of words you know. Using the word "word" is correct.
Reference:
https://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Dictionary Part 2 Looking Up a Word
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| 1. Open the dictionary to about halfway and check the first letter on the page, let's say the letter is $m$. | ||
| 2. Since $r$ comes after $m$ in the alphabet, we can ignore the first half of the dictionary and focus on the latter half. | ||
| 1. Open the dictionary to about halfway and check the first vocabulary of the page, let's say the letter starts with $m$. |
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"vocabulary" -> "letter". "starts with" > "is".
The Chinese is "首字母", which is the first letter. Dictionaries arrange words from A to Z. We need to locate the first letter of the target word.
Reference:
https://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Dictionary Part 2 Looking Up a Word
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To clarify, are we checking for the first complete word in the list, or the first letter of the first word on the page?
E.g. The list is
['apple', 'banana', 'corn'], are we checking forappleor are we checking fora?
For your reference:
Vocabulary vs. Word - What's the Difference?
| 1. Open the dictionary to about halfway and check the first letter on the page, let's say the letter is $m$. | ||
| 2. Since $r$ comes after $m$ in the alphabet, we can ignore the first half of the dictionary and focus on the latter half. | ||
| 1. Open the dictionary to about halfway and check the first vocabulary of the page, let's say the letter starts with $m$. | ||
| 2. Since $r$ comes after $m$ in the alphabet, the first half can be ignored and the search is narrowed down to the second half. |
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Yes, that will be more accurate. Thanks.
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| **Example 3: Making Change**. Suppose we buy goods worth $69$ yuan at a supermarket and give the cashier $100$ yuan, then the cashier needs to give us $31$ yuan in change. They would naturally complete the thought process as shown in the figure below. | ||
| **Example 3: Making Change**. Imagine purchasing items costing $\$69$ at a supermarket. If you give the cashier $\$100$, they will need to provide you with $\$31$ in change. This process can be clearly understood as illustrated in the figure below. |
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Now that I've reread this sentence, it sounds a bit awkward. Would "Assume making a purchase of $69 at a supermarket..." sound more fluent?
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Thank @beatrix-chan for the PR! Did you use an AI agent to help optimize the translation? If so, which model do you use? |
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Hi @krahets thanks for asking. In terms of translation, I did not use any AI models, all translations are done by me. But I have used Grammarly to check the grammars, and Microsoft Copilots to check the fluency. Hopefully that helps 😺 |
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简体中文直接翻译 “词汇” 和 “字母” 成英语是 “word” 和 “letter” 没错，但英语词语里它们的意思跟中文有点差异。用“vocabulary”（或简写 “vocab”）比较合适。
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