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Re:In what areas are the massive fortunes of the future goin... by stcredzero on Monday September 23, 2013 @01:01AM (#6429222)
Big O notation with a constant amount? If so, that's the same as O(1) or is that another notation I'm not familiar with?
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Re:In what areas are the massive fortunes of the future goin... by Neslit on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:05AM (#6429366)
Ah sorry... I was just being sloppy, what I wrote doesn't make sense. What I meant was "order of magnitude", but I'm not sure how to write that; Big Theta says two functions grow within a constant factor of each other, which is vaguely similar to the notion of order of magnitude. Maybe it should have been "$~10^9$" or just "$10^9$".

(By the way, my reasoning was 10^4 for current cryonics prices, times 10^7 or 10^8 people, times 10^-2 or 10^-3 assuming a fee of 1% to 0.1%.)

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