And I'm going to show you an example in a 1 second, just to drive this home, but notice the characteristics. In the first two cases, the problem reduced by 1 at each step.

在前面两个例子里,每一部问题的规模缩小了,不管是迭代的还是递归的，这表明这个问题的复杂性可能是线性的。

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Yes. That was certainly the biggest, I mean, that was an international financial crisis, but it was largely focused here at home.

对，那的确是最大的，我是说那其实是一场全球金融危机，但是焦点基本集中在我们这里。

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I heard one of them say to an imaginary suitor, "and you without health or a home."

我听到有人对臆想的原告说，你没有健康，你没有家庭“

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