And there's a lot more to it than just trying to count the number of Americans.

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If he switched from gold to let's say iron, he also tried platinum, a number of different foils, he found that they count rate it still was 20 alpha particles per minute.

金箔的时候，计数率就变成零了,如果他把金换成比如说铁，他们还尝试了铂,还有一系列其他的箔片，他发现计数率还是每分钟。

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As I said, what we want to do is, we want to count the number of basic steps it takes to compute a computation as a function of input size.

我刚才提到了，我们要建立，一个根据输入大小的方法来计算,一个计算过程需要的时间,建立这个方法需要几步呢？

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