These things run for variable amounts of time because they take input, a list of size of some amount.

而这一段的执行时间是可变的,因为它们需要输入一个包含一些元素的列表。

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It was a complete waste of time, unless the goal in life was simply to pester the user for some input.

刚才的时间就完全浪费了，除非那个唯一的目的,是简单地纠缠用户索要一些输入。

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Another way of saying it is, if I, for example, 10 increase the size of the input by 10 10 the amount of time increases by 10.

另一种说法就是，例如，我把输入的规模增加0,解决花费的时间也会增加。

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I'm much better having an exception get handled at the time of input than to let that prop -- that value rather propagate through a whole bunch of code until eventually it hits an error 17 calls later, and you have no clue where it came from.

不是我期望的格式,这时我最好有一个异常处理,而不是让其传下去,这个值传到代码的整个分支,最终会导致一个错误17调用的发生，并且你不知道这个错误是哪里来的。

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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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