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I swear "n+1" only popped up in the past 5 or so years with this meaning. I learned it over a decade ago as "1+n". Also "n+1" looks more like a reference to co
by Izkata 2y ago
I swear "n+1" only popped up in the past 5 or so years with this meaning. I learned it over a decade ago as "1+n".
Also "n+1" looks more like a reference to concurrency/synchronization throughput - like, n concurrent threads or requests where the results are collected and used together. I was really confused the first few times I saw "n+1" because of that.
- crabmusket 2y agoIt reminds me of mathematical induction, where the k=n and k=n+1 cases are compared. The emphasis is on the +1, the next case to be proved. It looks like this page in the SQLite docs has had the "n+1" terminology for as long as it's been on the internet archive (2016): https://web.archive.org/web/20161112021608/https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html https://web.archive.org/web/20161112021608/https://www.sqlit...