这个差距告诉我们需要做多少工作。

The gap tells us how much work we need to do.

youdao

只要有水，不管多少，我们都需要做一些事。

As long as there's water, no matter how little, we need to do something.

youdao

我们知道如何去探寻，我们知道需要做多少探寻，可是这非常昂贵。

We know how to make the search, we know how much searching is required, but it's very costly.

youdao

And the thing I wanted point out is, we've got this global variable number of calls. Which is there not because Fibonacci needs it but just for pedagogical reasons, so that we can keep track of how much work this thing is doing.

要指出的是我们已经,调用了几次这个全局变量,这不是因为斐波那契数列,需要调用它而只是,因为教学上的需要，以便我们可以知道,这个函数做了多少事情。

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