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Re:Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer by MOARDONGZPLZ on Saturday October 29, 2016 @02:05PM (#12825346)
Maybe you're being hyperbolic (and maybe I'm being pedantic), but from what I recall Knuth was the first to describe complexity notation in the late-60s or early-70s in The Art of Computer Programming. This definitely predates C++.
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