I know it's boring, but we need to do it so you know what the ground rules are.

我知道这很无聊，不过为了让你们了解规则,我们必须得做这个。

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OK. At this point, if we stop, you'll think all algorithms are linear. This is really boring.

可能我们就认为所有的解决这个问题的，算法都是线性增长的了，真很没意思,但是他们真不是对不对？

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This chart, very boring and uninteresting but useful to say there are very well defined rules as to when you're writing code, what operators, like what syntax should get evaluated first.

这个图表，看起来很烦，很无趣，但是它很有用,有非常明确的规定,譬如，当你写代码时，就会涉及操作符的优先级。

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