• duncesplayed
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    1 year ago

    Any algorithm can be O(n^2) if you only want it to be occasionally right.

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      1 year ago

      Any algorithm can be O(1) if you cache all the answers beforehand.

    • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yes.

      And depending how occasionally we’re talking, I can code for some very fast solutions when the correctness requirements are low enough.

      Alternately, if we want it to only be occasionally fast, I’ve got a very nice looking and very wrong algorithm for that, as well.