So when I do the analysis, I want to think about what am I doing here, am I capturing all the pieces of it? Here, the two variables that matter are what's the length of the list, and how many times I'm going to search it?

这里，要关注的,两个变量是列表,的长度以及我要搜索的次数,这种情况下，这个算法赢了？

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I have not checked the length of the variable called nan.

没有检查变量的长度。

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N So, I'm initializing a variable called N to the string length of s1.

我初始化一个变量,等于s1的字符串长度。

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