The algorithm doesn't know that it's going to take this long to compute, it's just busy crunching away, trying to see if it can make it happen.

这很可能会发生，但是你知道的,算法本身并不知道，计算这个问题需要多长的时间，它就一直忙碌的算啊算。

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In fact, if I ran one of these things, it would just keep crunching away.

我们主要来谈谈时间问题，实际上，让我运行这些东西。

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