And so frequently what we try and do is, we take a new problem and map it onto an old problem so that we can use an old solution.

我们经常做的一件事就是，我们处理一个新问题时,把它归结为一个老问题,以便我们能采取老的解决方式。

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That's the question we're going to try and address. If we can do this, this is good, because first of all, it removes any questions about what machine I'm running on, it's talking about fundamentally, how hard is this problem, and the second thing is, it is going to do it specifically in terms of the input. Which is one of the things that I was worried about.

这是一个我们接下来要去,尝试和解决的问题，如果我们能做到的话会很不错，因为首先，它解决了结果可能和我,运行的计算机有关系的问题，因为这从根本了告诉了，我们这个问题的复杂度，第二件事情,就是这种方法可以依据输入的大小来计算,而这正是我最担心的地方。

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