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> It's stretching the Big Oh notation but it isn't terrible I'd say it is terrible. O(10) is O(1), and it doesn't make a lot of sense in this context (measure

> It's stretching the Big Oh notation but it isn't terrible I'd say it is terrible. O(10) is O(1), and it doesn't make a lot of sense in this context (measure of growth to represent a scalar).

jaredsohn 6y ago
Which is also the same as O(1000000000) for which data would have different significance.
zests 6y ago
f = O(n) makes no sense either. It should be f ∈ O(n). However, notation serves us and we don't serve the notation. People say "Big O" when they mean "Big Theta".