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GeneralRe: Everything about Java 8 Pin
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Algorithms and their complexity often occur in critical parts of computer systems, but I find that few engineers have a good understanding of how a O(n!) algorithm compares to a O(n^5) one. In the coding contest world, competitors think about these tradeoffs all the time. No wonder, there's a set of numbers every algorithm designer should know. The table below shows the limits that can be reached in a few seconds by algorithms of different complexities, n being the input size. I've added some algorithms and data structure examples for each complexity class.
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