Sadly regarding complexity the English article is not on the level of the German one. And both bring nearly no references!!! :-(

Eine Untersuchung der Interpolationssuche erweist sich als sehr komplex, als Laufzeit kann jedoch O(log(log(n))) (n ist die Anzahl der Elemente) im durchschnittlichen Fall angenommen werden. Im ungünstigsten (die interpolierte erwartete Position ist immer am Rand) Fall beträgt die Laufzeit allerdings O(n).

Furthermore as already said in my first reply your alleged O(1) code breaks interpolation search just after the first step!

The other points your starting again are already fully answered.

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE: Palabras,palabras,palabras - Spanish 8)

In reply to Re^14: Rapid text searches ( O(log n) time) by LanX
in thread Rapid text searches by joomanji

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