Therefore, for simple branching programs, the length of time, the complexity the code, is what we would call constant.

因此，对于简单的分支程序，运行的时间长度，算法的复杂度，也就是我们说的常数。

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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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Even though there's four bytes the length of the string is consistent with what a human being would interpret as the length 3 of the string which is 3.

即使那里有4个字节,字符串的长度,与我们所认为的长度是一致的,字符串的长度是。

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