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For software contexts, we refer to space as memory or overall storage depending on the architecture.

• perrygeo 3y ago
  Yet when refering to both space and time, you should consider explicating that space = memory, time = time.
  • sweetgiorni 3y ago
    > you should consider explicating that space = memory, time = time. That seems unnecessary. Even a layman knows that in the context of a computer, space != physical space. Most people think of disk space, but it can also refer to memory usage [0]. The meaning of the name was obvious to me after reading the first half of the first sentence of the article. I thought it was clever :) [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_complexity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_complexity