Suppose instead, I want a machine that can take a recipe, the description of a sequence of steps, take that as its input, and then that machine will now act like what is described in that recipe.

假设换成这个，我想要一台可以安装描述，一系列步骤的结果的方法的机器，把那个当做输入设备，然后那台机器可以像方法中,描述的那样运行了。

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Perhaps more importantly, how to recognize a kind of algorithm based on its properties and know what class it belongs to. This is a hint. If you like, leaning towards the next quiz, that you oughta be able to say that looks like a logarithmic algorithm because it's got a particular property. That looks like an n log n algorithm because it has a particular property.

也许更重要的是,如何根据一个算法的特点将其辨别出来,并且知道它属于哪一类算法,这是一个提示，就对于接下来的测验来说,如果你喜欢你可以说它看起来像一个对数算法,因为它有一个特定的性质,那个看起来像一个n，log，n的算法,因为它有一个特定的性质。

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