Therefore, for simple branching programs, the length of time, the complexity the code, is what we would call constant.

因此，对于简单的分支程序，运行的时间长度，算法的复杂度，也就是我们说的常数。

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Again, I want you to start seeing how to map the characteristics of the code- the characteristics of the algorithm, let's not call it the code-- to the complexity.

是算法中的那些特性,我们还是别说代码了，转化为复杂度-,我一会儿还会再讲点儿这个的，但是我们再看一个例子。

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And it is that conflict, as it were, between what we might call worldliness and innocence that is the core of Machiavelli's moral code.

可以说，正是那种冲突,那种我们可以称之为世俗理念与纯洁无知之间,的冲突，是马基雅维利道德准则的核心所在。

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OK. So if I look at this code, first of all I'm calling search, it just has one call, so looks like search is constant, except I don't know what happens inside of b search. So I've got to look at b search.

首先调用一下搜索，就一步调用,看起来搜索是固定的，除非我不知道二分搜索的原理，那我们来看看二分搜索吧,所以让我们看看，第一行打印出来的内容。

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Basic idea, before I even look at the code, is pretty simple. If I've got a list that is sorted, in let's call it, just in increasing order, and I haven't said what's in the list, could be numbers, could be other things, for now, we're going to just assume they're integers.

我们可以说基本的思想是很简单的,如果我有一个排好序的数组，让我们认为这个数组是递增的吧，我并没说数组里元素是什么，可能是数字，也可能是其他的东西，现在我们假设是integer类型的数字吧，最简单的方式就是这么做了：

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