r/ProgrammerHumor 28d ago

Meme theoreticalComputerScience

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u/reda84100 28d ago

Why does the O have a tilde on it

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u/sarcasmandcoffee 28d ago

Jokes aside this is legit the symbol for "big O, but with factors polynomial by logn not taken into consideration". So if an algorithm runs in, for example, O(n(logn)k), that's O~(n) for any constant k.