Obviously the algorithm is likely to depend on the size of the input, so this is not a great idea.

很明显这个算法是与我的,输入的大小相关的，因此这不是个好方法。

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Well, let's call this same algorithm, on input of four elements.

我们调用相同的算法，其输入是4个元素。

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It is certainly possible, for example, that a quadratic algorithm could run faster than a linear algorithm. It depends on what the input is, it depends on, you know, what the particular cases are. So it is not the case that, on every input, a linear algorithm is always going to be better than a quadratic algorithm.

一个二次平方级复杂度的算法,当然也是可能跑的比线性复杂度算法快的,这取决于，你知道的，输入以及特定的案例，因此并不是对于每个输入,线性复杂度就一定会,比二次平方级复杂度的算法的表现要好,只是通常来说是这样的。

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So the running time of the problem where the input is T of size N as expressed here formulaically, T of N, the running time of an algorithm, given an input of size N. You know what?

因此一个输入为N的问题的运行时间,在这儿的公式表示为，如果输入为N，那么此算法的运行时间,是多少呢？

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