And yet if a computer can only count up to 2 billion or maybe 4 billion, I mean, what do you then do?

如果一台计算机只能够支持20亿,或者40亿，那我们该怎么办？

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If I want to try and decide how to tackle a problem in an iterative matter, here the steps I'm going to go through. First thing I'm going to do, is I'm going to choose a variable that's going to count.

但是这就是我对它的观点,如果我试着去以迭代的方式,解决一个问题的话,下面是我应该采取的步骤,第一件要做的事情。

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So what do you do when you're a kid and you want 3 to count a little faster than 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 what is the simplest thing you do?

因此当你还是个孩子的时候,你想数得比1，2，3，4快一些3,最简单的方法是什么？

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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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