This is correct. You certainly are better at explaining this sort of stuff better than I do. If you have a blog or if you write for any org, please do give me a

This is correct. You certainly are better at explaining this sort of stuff better than I do. If you have a blog or if you write for any org, please do give me a link, I'd sure like to improve. Let me just re-iterate your point. The longest word in the English dictionary is 45 characters long. The average is 5 and the average of the word list I've used is 8. So, when it comes down to it, saying that its constant time is a fair assumption because your (as you eloquently put it) the length of a word is bounded.