From: "Tim Behrendsen" <tim@airshields.com>
Subject: Re: Teaching sorts [was Re: What's the best language to start with?]
Date: 1996/08/21
Date: 1996-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bb8f1b$ce59c820$32ee6fce@timhome2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DwGoHq.6n7@cwi.nl
Dik T. Winter <dik@cwi.nl> wrote in article <DwGoHq.6n7@cwi.nl>...
> In article <4vd05f$rt5@news1.mnsinc.com> huang@mnsinc.com (Szu-Wen Huang)
writes:
> > : For example, suppose the behavior of an algorithm is
> >
> > : for n up to 1000, time is 1 second
> >
> > "time is *n* seconds", I presume. Otherwise this would be O(1).
>
> Nope. Robert Dewar wrote 1 second and intended 1 second, you can not
> conclude big-oh behaviour from a finite number of samples.
> >
> > : for n greater than 1000, time is 1000*n seconds
> >
> > : that's clearly O(N), but the time for 2000 items will be 2_000_000
> > : seconds.
> > [snip]
> >
> > I disagree.
>
> You may disagree, but that is what the definition is! Big-oh notation
> is about asymptotic behaviour, i.e. what is expected to happen for n
> very large.
>
> > I expect a linear algorithm to display linear behavior
> > unless otherwise stated.
>
> It will, for large enough n. And "enough" is explicitly not specified.
>
> > What you cite is a case where it needs to
> > be explicitly stated, because calling that algorithm "O(n)" is next
> > to useless in predicting its behavior without knowing this peculiar
> > behavior at n=1,000.
>
> But big-oh notation is about prediction for large n. You can not use
> the notation to really predict the running time for a particular value,
> only to estimate it; and your estimation may be way off. If an
> algorithm runs in N^2 + 10^100 N seconds, it is still O(N^2), although
> you never will experience the quadratic behaviour of the algorithm.
> (Actually, of course, you will never see the algorithm come to
completion.)
I have to admit, I have to side with Szu-Wen. I've never really
thought about this case for the O() notation, but it seems from
a purely mathematical standpoint that O(f(n)) means that f(n)
is *the* function. If f(n) happens to be a non-continuous function,
then so be it.
If the running time is
kn for n < 1000
k(n^2) for n >= 1000
then f(n) =
O(n) for n < 1000
O(n^2) for n >= 1000
then the big-Oh function should be (pardon my syntax)
O( (n < 1000) ? n : n^2 )
The latter is not only more useful, but absolutely accurate.
AFAIK, there are no limits on the complexity of the Big-Oh
function, and no requirement that it be a continuous
function.
-- Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com)
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1996-07-22 0:00 ` Jeremy Nelson
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Jeremy Nelson
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1996-07-22 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
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1996-07-24 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-24 0:00 ` John A Hughes
1996-07-23 0:00 ` John A Hughes
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1996-07-18 0:00 ` Walter B. Hollman Sr.
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Patrick Horgan
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Billy Chambless
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1996-07-19 0:00 ` Vic Metcalfe
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-20 0:00 ` steved
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1996-07-20 0:00 ` Jon Bell
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Andy Askey
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22 0:00 ` steidl
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Michael Ickes
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Andy Askey
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1996-07-21 0:00 ` Rich Maggio
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
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1996-07-24 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
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1996-07-21 0:00 ` Wayne
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1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
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1996-07-23 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Andrew J Steinbach
1996-07-24 0:00 ` system
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1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon Bell
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1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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1996-07-25 0:00 ` Andy Askey
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Mark Eissler
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1996-08-14 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1996-08-15 0:00 ` Joe Foster
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1996-09-03 0:00 ` Alan Peake
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1996-08-18 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
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1996-08-21 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Mark Wooding
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1996-08-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Mark Wooding
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-18 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-17 0:00 ` Dan Pop
1996-08-18 0:00 ` Mark Wooding
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Szu-Wen Huang
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1996-08-01 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-08-03 0:00 ` Tim Behrendsen
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1996-08-05 0:00 ` Patrick Horgan
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