In the linear case, meaning in the unsorted case what's the complexity of this? k times n, right? Order n to do the search, and I've got to do it k times, so this would be k times n.

复杂度是多少？k的n次方，对吧？,在序列n中做搜索，要做k次，所以是k的n次方次,如果先排序后搜索。

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I could still do the linear case, which is order n or I could say, look, take the list, let's sort it and then search it. But in that case we said well to sort it was going to take n log n time, assuming I can do that.

我仍然可以做O的线性搜索,或者也可以以这个列表为例，我们先将其进行排序,然后再进行查找，但是在这种情况下,要花费n，log，n的时间去对其进行排序。

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