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big O notation for the rest of us

By Dominik Liebler On November 2, 2011 · 2 Comments

Have you ever stumbled upon something like O(N log N) and wondered what that means or what it is good for? I have and of course I wanted to know what that means. From the context I thought it must have something to do with algorithms and their execution times. So what did I do? [...]

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