And the obvious question I could start with is, and suppose I ask you, how long does the algorithm implemented by this program take to run?

我开始这个话题的第一个问题是，假设我问你，由这个算法实现的程序大概,要运行多久才能给出答案？

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So you can imagine that this is a very powerful mechanism. So let's look what happens when I run-- start to run this.

因此你可以想到这是一种很强大的机制,让我们看看让我开始运行,这个程序的时候会有什么结果。

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It's going to let j run over the length of the list all right, so it's going to start at some point to move down, and then it's going to let i run over range, that's just one smaller, and what's it doing there?

就在这里，会做什么呢？,我们让j遍历这个列表,好的，它要从某一定开始移动,然后让i也跑遍整个范围，就是比之要小一，会发生什么？

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