One of the things we want to help you do is identify the different classes of algorithms, what their costs are, and how you can map problems into the most efficient class to do the computation.

我们想要教会你们的事情之一就是,学会辨别不同种类的算法，它们的代价是怎么样的，以及怎么样把问题映射到,最有效的算法种类中去做计算。

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