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Thanks, I get that it means asymptotic behavior - that's the thing I don't get the motivation for.
by alanbernstein 10y ago
Thanks, I get that it means asymptotic behavior - that's the thing I don't get the motivation for.
- panic 10y agoI think the intuition is that we want to focus on the edges of the box (where the lengths sum together like the answer we're looking for), not the volume (where the lengths multiply together and cause problems). So we expand the edges until they completely dominate the equation.