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dprkh • today at 12:36 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Why is that funny?


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simon-b • today at 1:13 AM

The relative difference is so absurdly small to be irrelevant at any realisable input size. At least that's my read; e.g. even at n=10^80 (~number atoms in universe), the relative difference is ~0. That's still probably underselling how similar this is to n log n.

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philipwhiuk • today at 1:00 AM

The -182 feels highly arbitrary.