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forrestthewoods
8 months ago
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A visual introduction to big O notation
This “well ackchyually“ is not particularly helpful. You’re not wrong. But this argument was lost 30 years ago. The programming field has been using “Big O” loosely.
windward
8 months ago
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I've had conversations at work where the difference was important. Mass adoption of quicksort implies I'm not the only one.
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