Hmm. N log N with N=4 == 2.408. How does that affect your boogle?
Not at all. Three points:
  1. In CS, when people talk about log, they mean 2log, and 4 2log 4 == 8.
  2. I don't know what significance 4 has. The array has a 1000 elements, so N equals 1000, so N log N would be about 9966.
  3. But numbers don't mean anything. When we talk about a linear, or a quadratic, or a N log N, or some other function of N algorithm, we talk about how it scales. Any constants involved are ignored.

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