• JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Likely they want a lower time complexity.

    for example a question can be trivially solved in O(n^2). but there is no know < O(n) solution, so they ask for O(n)

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Most of the time O(n^2) is optimized to O(n log n). You’ll get some sort of award if you can figure out a sorting function that runs in O(n).