Knowing the generally used names of things isn't the same as knowing the things. "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." -- Ernest Rutherford. I

Knowing the generally used names of things isn't the same as knowing the things. "All science is either physics or stamp collecting." -- Ernest Rutherford. I suspect there are many people who understand the Big-O, Omega, Theta, and Little-O implications (the physics) but might not have heard the term "constant time amortized" (the stamp collecting). (Not that knowing accepted names is bad, it's much much easier to communicate when everyone shares a set of terms that they agree on the meaning of...)