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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: on reading ``o(1)'' |
| Date | 2017-03-26 22:14 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87vaqv68qe.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <86vaqydwqx.fsf@toledo.com> <ob50hd$7hh$1@dont-email.me> |
Michael Forsythe <forsythe@example.com> writes: > Daniel Bastos <dbastos@toledo.com> wrote: >> Suppose f in o(1). By definition, there's a natural number n(0) such >> that for any c > 0 >> >> 0 <= f < c * 1 = c >> >> for any n >= n(0). (AFAIK, c is a real number.) That seems to imply >> that f = 0 because that's the only thing that could be less than any >> c > 0. > > I believe there are two problems. The first is that you are writing > `o(1)', but the paper is using `O(1)'. The two are rather different, > and I think you want to be talking about O(1). The paper appears to use both, and the OP's quote from the paper has what appears to be a very clear small o (and the paper is littered with them). > The second is that your definition seems to have misplaced a > quantifier. Not if, as I think is the case, the OP meant to define little-o(1). <snip> -- Ben.
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on reading ``o(1)'' Daniel Bastos <dbastos@toledo.com> - 2017-03-24 21:29 -0300
Re: on reading ``o(1)'' Kaz Kylheku <336-986-7787@kylheku.com> - 2017-03-25 02:40 +0000
Re: on reading ``o(1)'' Michael Forsythe <forsythe@example.com> - 2017-03-25 05:51 +0000
Re: on reading ``o(1)'' Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-03-26 22:14 +0100
Re: on reading ``o(1)'' Michael Forsythe <forsythe@example.com> - 2017-03-28 10:32 +0000
Re: on reading ``o(1)'' Michael Forsythe <forsythe@example.com> - 2017-03-28 10:33 +0000
Re: on reading ``o(1)'' Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-03-26 22:11 +0100
Re: on reading ``o(1)'' Daniel Bastos <dbastos@toledo.com> - 2017-03-28 21:05 -0300
Re: on reading ``o(1)'' Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-03-29 14:23 +0100
Re: on reading ``o(1)'' Daniel Bastos <dbastos@toledo.com> - 2017-04-03 09:40 -0300
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