We saw some quadratic algorithms, typically those are things with multiple nested loops, or iterative or recursive calls, where you're doing, say, a linear amount of time but you're doing it a linear number of times and so it becomes quadratic, and you'll see other polynomial kinds of algorithms.

我们看过一些平方算法，他们一般进行了多次嵌套循环,或者递归迭代调用，对一个线性操作调用线性次,这样就变成平方次了,以后你们能看到,一些多项式算法。

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All right, any questions about that. Yeah?

递归调用来解决其他问题？

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Because the algorithm I proposed is going to leverage this idea of recursion which recall was just a piece of jargon we tossed out at the last-- at the end of last week's lecture, last time's lecture recursion really in this context refers to the act of a function calling it's self.

因为我提出的这种算法使用了,递归的思想，这是上周课程的最后,所提出的一个术语，上次的课程中，递归是指,函数的自我调用。

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5 recursive calls to get there.

5次递归调用,才得到这个答案。

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