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I'm guessing shmageggy thought the notation was Big-O notation. It's a bit of CS notation that defines an upper bound on the number of operations for an algori
by metaobject 10y ago
I'm guessing shmageggy thought the notation was Big-O notation. It's a bit of CS notation that defines an upper bound on the number of operations for an algorithm as a function of input size.
I don't know enough about particle physics to know whether you and him/her are even remotely close to saying the same thing.
- shmageggy 10y agoI did. I've never seen it used in another way. TIL
- cygx 10y agoIt's math notation invented for analytic number theory that got popularized in CS by Donald Knuth. By definition, constant (nonzero) arguments denote the same class, so using constants different from 1 isn't really useful. However, the O stands for 'order' or 'order of', and it sometimes gets (ab)used to denote orders of magnitude (eg powers of 10) of finite values instead of limiting behaviour of functions.