Whereas in the linear case, I make it ten times bigger, it takes ten times longer to run. OK.

它要占用原来十倍的时间去运行，我一直在说还有一件事情没有讲，这是我要强调的最后一件事。

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And in fact, one of the lessons you may already be realizing with P sets is that things seem to take twice, three times, four times longer than you actually might think.

从习题集中你可能已经得出的一个教训就是,程序所花的实际时间往往是你开始以为的两倍，三倍，四倍甚至更长。

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Fast forward just about four years later, and the company's literally ten times larger.

此后戴尔快速发展，仅四年的时间，就壮大了十倍。

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If one chord holds twice as long or only half as long, then we have an irregular harmonic change--irregular rate of harmonic change.

如果某一个和弦持续的时间是其他和弦的两倍或者只有一半，这就是不规则的和声改变。

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It varies with the square of distance so it goes - in order to go twice as far it takes four times as long.

速度是与距离的平方正相关的--,如果要扩散两倍的距离要多花四倍的时间

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Over that eighty-one year period you would have gotten a multiple of seventy-two.

经过81年时间,你翻了72倍

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You could think, you have to think earnings are going to go up twelve-fold to get it down to four times earnings, which will take a long, long time.

你可能会想，你必然认为收益会上涨12倍,让它回落到四倍于原来收益的地方，会花费很长一段时间。

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So supposed that I give you 16 elements to sort, well, following the logic before, the running time involved in sorting 16 elements is gonna be twice the running time 16 of sorting 8 elements, left half and right half plus 16 - and again, a little sanity check, 16 means-- just the merge steps, right?

现在要对16个元素进行排序，根据之前的逻辑，对16个元素排序,要花的时间是对8个元素排序所花时间的,2倍，分别用于左半部分和右半部分，再加上6,这里16是-,做合并的步数，对吗？

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