¶ Divide and Conquer Sequence
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‘That’s great,’ he tells the king.
‘So you report to me pretty regularly.’
'Then the king says, I’m going to cut this other man’s head off because he has been a troublemaker. But the man answered, ‘You’d better not do that, Kister, because I know how to make swords better than anyone else. I understand metallurgy.’
'The king says, ‘All right, prove it to me.’
'He does and it’s a beautiful sword. So the king says, ‘All right, you just make swords.’
'And then he says to another one, 'I’m going to cut your head off because I understand you have been stealing all my stuff. So this little guy says, ‘I understand numbers and know how to do calculations and you don’t and I could keep track of all the things you own and I could keep people from stealing your things.’
‘Well,’ says the king, ‘That’s a great idea. You just do that now. But you mind your business. But you mind your business, and you mind your business, and you mind your business. I’m the only one who minds everybody’s business. Is that clear?’
‘This, then, is how specialization began. The king’
