I ask you for the running time of this algorithm and you give me the running time in terms of the running time, right.

我需要得到此算法的时间复杂度,那就明确地给出其,运行时间。

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You can actually say big O of 1, big O of 1 being constant time, the same number of steps.

其复杂度为O，表示时间是一个常量，所用的步数是相同的。

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