So I'm first going to look for something that's not in the list, I'm going to see, is minus 1 in this list, so it's going to be at the far end, and if I do that in the basic case, bam.

如果我试试第一种最基本的方法,噢，一下就完成了对不对？,因为这种方法查了下第一个元素，然后发现目标数比较下，因为目标数小于第一个元素。

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b times. So I've got to go 3 b steps. All right I've got to go through the loop b times I've got three steps each time, and then when I pop out of the loop, I've got two more steps. All right I've got the initiation of answer and the return of it.

好，我一共执行了b次循环,每次循环内部进行了三次基本操作,当跳出循环后还有两个基本操作，因此这个初始的答案就是,2+3b次基本操作,来完成这个循环。

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