Plain English explanation of Big O

Posted by abcom on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @02:28AM
from the stackoverflow.com dept.

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Re:Plain English explanation of Big O by ColinWright on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @03:36AM (#5778710)

Quite a favorite:

The longest discussion is from nearly three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520552

It seems a popular topic here on HN, there are many references to the Big-O Notation:

A theme I've seen crop up several times is that the authors of the articles often either don't explain it clearly, or actively get it wrong.

Read with care random ramblings from the interwebs.

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Re:Plain English explanation of Big O by abcom on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @04:09AM (#5778824)

Yeah, looks a quite favorite one. The only reason I think is the number of "up"s for the answer in SO (2398 ups as of this writing).

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