I assure you that the author is indeed smart (at least he thinks he is), but is unskilled in the ways of complexity analysis. This was his means of making himse

I assure you that the author is indeed smart (at least he thinks he is), but is unskilled in the ways of complexity analysis. This was his means of making himself better, by seeing what other people made of what his attempts were. Regrettably, he still has a lot more to learn it seems.