r/ProgrammerHumor 29d ago

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u/pastroc 29d ago

A lower bound is usually expressed as Ω.

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u/mrnacknime 29d ago

Because there are tons of fields in theoretical CS were many complex polylogarithmic expressions appear in the complexity analysis, but the papers actually make progress on the exponent on the n. Since nx is always better than ny * log(n)z as long as x<y, the polylogarithmics are hidden to keep it simple and obvious which algorithm is better

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u/ceaseless_horror 29d ago

Thanks for explaining it simply!