I could spend the next twenty minutes just talking about his accomplishments.

我可以用尽接下来20多分钟的时间,来介绍他所取得的成就。

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I'm accessing a list. How long does it take for me to get the nth element of a list?

我取得数组的第N个元素,需要多长时间呢？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It's really remarkable how far--how fast we have come from just knowing the structure of this molecule to be able to manipulate it and study it in great detail.

我们在短时间内取得了非凡的成就,从最初仅仅知道DNA分子的结构,发展到能够深入研究并加以操控它

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So we're to assume we can get to any piece of data, any instruction in constant time, and the second assumption we're going to make is that the basic primitive steps take constant time, same amount of time to compute. Again, not completely true, but it's a good model, so arithmetic operations, comparisons, things of that sort, we're all going to assume are basically in that in that particular model.

因此如果我们假设在恒定的时间内,我们可以取得任何一块数据,任何一种数据结构的话,我们要做的第二个假设就是,基本的原始操作计算花费的时间是恒定的,这个假设也不是完全正确的，但这个模型其实挺不错的，因此算法操作，比较，这一类的事情，我们在这个特定的模型中都假设是基本的,操作，花费的时间是恒定相同的。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

It's not true, by the way, of all programming languages. In fact, Professor Guttag already talked about that, in some languages lists take a time linear with the length to get to it.

顺便说一句这在大部分，编程语言中做不到，实际上Guttag教授已经说过这一点了，在一些语言中取得数组,要花费时间是线性长度的。

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