In fact, you may find yourself taking two steps forward and one step back.

事实上，你可能会发现每当自己往前走了两补后就会倒退一步。

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Note that my process wasn't this linear. In fact it was quite messy, sometimes moving two steps forward and one step back.

请注意我经历的这个过程并非那么清楚明了，事实上，这个过程相当混乱，有时候前进两步，有时候又退后一步。

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But it's two steps forward, one step back.

可以说我们在向迈前进两步后又倒退了一步。

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So this line or these lines of code up here are arguably constant time steps to say if N is less than 2 in return, that it will always take maybe one step, maybe two steps, some number of fixed CPU cycles.

如果N小于2并返回,那么这些行所对应的代码,通常只需要执行一步，或者两步，具体数字与CPU周期有关。

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