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Re:A beginner's guide to Big O notation (2009) by njharman on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:12PM (#11637949)
I like this page http://bigocheatsheet.com/

Espcially the graph which hammers home how quickly things go wrong.

Re:A beginner's guide to Big O notation (2009) by rawnlq on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:31PM (#11639037)
That table is so wrong it makes me mad.
Re:A beginner's guide to Big O notation (2009) by teraflop on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:50PM (#11639180)
In what way? Having skimmed it, I see a couple of minor mistakes but the bulk of it seems correct.

The chart says you can search a Cartesian tree in O(log n) expected time, but I don't see how that's possible given that there's no ordering between a node's children.

Also, it's possible to do mergesort in O(1) space; in fact, it's one of the exercises in TAOCP, if I recall correctly. But the algorithm is so complicated that nobody uses it in practice.