The coupon is expressed as an annual amount; you get half of it every six months.

票息是以年为单位计算的,每六个月获得一半

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So the running time of the problem where the input is T of size N as expressed here formulaically, T of N, the running time of an algorithm, given an input of size N. You know what?

因此一个输入为N的问题的运行时间,在这儿的公式表示为，如果输入为N，那么此算法的运行时间,是多少呢？

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