>In standard big-O you take as an assumption that memory operations are O(1) No. If it look up big-O in a math book, it's not going to say anything about that.

>In standard big-O you take as an assumption that memory operations are O(1) No. If it look up big-O in a math book, it's not going to say anything about that. You can add assumptions on, but that's not big-O anymore, but something different. That's the point.