• mcmodknower@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    you can even have a case where you return the first element of the list if the list is not empty, and it will still be O(1).

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      9 months ago

      you can make it sort the first k elements and it will still be O(1). Set k high enough and it might even be useful

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        9 months ago

        I set k to 50,000,000,000… that’s more items than my shitty computer can fit in memory (including swsp) but I am now happy to celebrate my O(1) algorithm.

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        9 months ago

        By that logic, any sorting implementation is O(1), as the indexing variable/address type has limited size