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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents? by throwaway744678 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @06:11AM (#29173411)
Nitpicking (of course, HN, what did you expect): capturing is still O(1).
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents? by mjochim on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:08AM (#29176275)
I would argue that it’s O(n), increasing linearly with number of pages of the document ;-).
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents? by nickthemagicman on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @08:21PM (#29183325)
I see where you're coming from and we're probably getting wayyy in the weeds on this...:)....but I think they mean an insert of item into already existing array is O(1) and from your perspective ..traversal over time would be O(n) so I think y'all might both correct from diff perspectives.

I was thinking increasing insert time would increase Big O but they made the point that it's a constant which will cancel out as n approaches infinity.

God I'm a nerd.

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents? by nickthemagicman on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:59AM (#29175268)
HA. True I guess it just adds a constant to capture time . Good catch.