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However, if we only know the length of the input, and not the numbers themselves, we get differing upper and lower bounds. A binary number of length $n$ is any number $k$ such that $\floor{\log_2(k)}=n$. The smallest such number is $2^n$, and the largest such number is $2^{n+1}-1$. Let $n=\floor{\log_2(k)}$ be the length of $k$, and $m=\floor{\log_2(p)}$ be the length of $p$. We then get:  \[  T_{\verb|min|}(m, n) = \sum_{i=1}^{2^n}{\left[(i + 1) \dcot \cdot  m\right]} \]