Re^5: Gay Dating; or, Thrifty Set Intersections with an Accumulator

N does not actually get to go to infinity

Actually, the entire point of "big-Oh" is to talk about behaviours of functions when taking limits.

If one doesn't want to do so, don't mention "big-Oh".

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Re^6: Gay Dating; or, Thrifty Set Intersections with an Accumulator by Anonymous Monk on Aug 13, 2010 at 20:23 UTC
Getting Joe Watercooler to talk about big-Oh & etc correctly is about as likely as getting everybody to use proper code indentation...	[reply]

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