Re:A beginner's guide to Big O notation (2009)
by Rhapso on Thursday May 05, 2016 @08:14PM
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In big-O senses Radix sort is one of those more persistent misconceptions. At scale Radix sort has to be nlog(n) because you should really consider the possibility all your numbers are unique.
This does not even start on the reality that memory access really is O(n^(1/3)), addition is O(n) and a lot of other things we assume are O(1) are not.
This does not even start on the reality that memory access really is O(n^(1/3)), addition is O(n) and a lot of other things we assume are O(1) are not.