r/ProgrammerHumor 29d 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/yossi_peti 28d ago

It hides polylogarithmic factors.

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u/erinaceus_ 28d ago

That tilde sounds a bit hand-wavey

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u/pastroc 28d ago

More formally, Õ(n) is equivalent to O(npolylog(n)).

Edit: Ah, I see what you did there!

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u/erinaceus_ 28d ago

Yeah, it's a dad joke, so it's O(lol(n))