I believe tilde notation is meant to bridge the gap between a pure mathmatical behaviour analysis and realistic expectations when using an algorithm. Analysing

I believe tilde notation is meant to bridge the gap between a pure mathmatical behaviour analysis and realistic expectations when using an algorithm. Analysing an algorithm and determining that say for 2x input size expect 8x resource usage gives more information that would otherwise be hidden in big O notation. http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/41analysis/ http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/41analysis/