Dictionaries are implemented using a magic technique called hashing, which we'll look at a little bit later in the term, which allows us to retrieve keys in constant time.

散列法的内容,此方法可以让我们在线性,时间内检索到键,因此字典的大小并不重要了。

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Here I'll initiate the memo to be 0, or to be empty, rather, the dictionary.

在这里我会将memo初始化为，或者为空，作为记录字典。

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