Heh, or perhaps we could say that it's simply a short hand colloquialism for "on the order of 10 years"? ;-) As somebody with physics and engineering degrees, a

Heh, or perhaps we could say that it's simply a short hand colloquialism for "on the order of 10 years"? ;-) As somebody with physics and engineering degrees, as well as 20 years of CS experience, I'd very much enjoy it if we'd stop perpetuating the idea that nobody without a PhD in CS understands asymptotic complexity.