Remember we said we design lists so that the access, no matter where it was on the list was of constant time.

记住我们说过我们创建了,一个列表它就是这么访问的,无论它在列表的哪个位置。

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Constant. Ooh, constant says, no matter what the length of the list is, I'm going to take the same amount of time.

这个算法用的时间是相同的，我不这么认为，如果我们创建一个十倍于以前大小的数组。

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Okay, so 1 is a viable answer in some contacts that needs constant time, the same amount of time no matter what.

在需要常量时间的情况下,答案是1，不管怎样，总时间是,相同的。

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For example, in terms of the atomic theory of matter, at the time at the turn of the Century, the understanding was that atoms were the most basic constituent of matter, meaning you couldn't break atoms up into anything smaller - that was it, you're done.

例如在原子理论中,在19，20世纪之交的时候,人们认为原子是,组成物质的最基本粒子,也就是说你不能,把原子再分割了,就这样了。

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Most of us most of the time hold these beliefs as a matter of faith as a matter of belief because we have learned about them from childhood because they were written by Thomas Jefferson or some other reputed high authority.

大部份的人一向将这些信念,奉为信仰，信条,因为我们从小,就是这样受教育,也因为它们是由托马斯？杰斐逊,及其它著名权贵所写。

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Now, I wanted to go to through this just to go through one cycle quickly because we're going to be doing these all the time, and the importance of the fact that the path doesn't matter, and you can always connect things together in a way, whatever you want.

我使用这种,利用热力学循环的推导方法的原因在于,今后我们，将经常使用类似的方法,大家要记住路径是无关紧要的，可以随意选取一条路径,来连接两个态。

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