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How to evaluate the tightness of a bound on a function?
To evaluate tightness of a bound on a function, you need to find both the upper and lower bounds. Finding an upper bound on the function is good but it leaves the possibility that the actual function ...
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What is the lower bound on retrieving an item in a collection if no arrays(Random access memory) are allowed?
@D.W. what if at each step, there is not a fixed finite number of choices, rather some $k$ choices. In that case, there would be $O(k^t)$ different control-flow paths. By properly tuning, $k$ and $t$ ,...
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What is the lower bound on retrieving an item in a collection if no arrays(Random access memory) are allowed?
Without arrays, $\Omega(\log n)$ time is needed. Without arrays, the memory address you access is entirely determined by the control-flow path, i.e., the sequence of control-flow decisions (if ...
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