OK. So last time around, we talked about, or introduced if you like, iterative programs.

好，上节课的最后时候，我们讲过了，或者是介绍过了。

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We used iterative deletion in a relatively abstract setting, or not abstract, rather a play setting last time in which were choosing numbers.

我们在相对抽象的背景下探讨迭代剔除,其实也没那么抽象,比如上一讲,我们做的选数字的游戏

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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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