If I get you down to a cluster of about 30 water molecules, the boiling point is a function of the size of the water droplet.

如果对于一个由30个水分子,组成的簇，沸点是,水珠尺寸的函数。

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When you call a function, what actually happens is that function gets its own chunk of memory that's identical in size to the data type that it expects.

当你调用一个函数，实际上发生的是,函数得到了自己的内存块，相同的类型,是占有一样大小的内存的。

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As I see it, the official function of this simile is to give us a sense of the size of Satan's shield and thereby to give us a sense of the size of Satan himself.

在我看来，这个比喻的正式的作用,是要给我们展现出撒旦的屏障的规模,因此来展现撒旦自身的伟岸。

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Usually what I want to talk about is what's the smallest size class in which this function grows? With all of that, what that says b is that this we would write is order b.

通常我们想要的是,方法增长时最贴切的描述,也就是说，在这个问题上,算法关于。

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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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malloc I'm going to now use this new, fancy function called malloc and I'm going to say x gets the return value of malloc of the size of an int.

我现在使用这个新的，别致的函数,然后我指明x，=，malloc的int型数据的大小,的返回值。

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