On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<< SNIP >> > There are different schools of thought about this actually. I don't > think pride comes into it. Well, *my* school is quite pompous about it. We think "open oh" is for sissies. But that's just us (quirky). Others more sobering. << GOOD STUFF >> >> Note that by "open oh" I'm not talking about "big oh", a different >> notation that I don't think is redundant, agree with Knuth that if >> your calculus book doesn't include it, you're probably in one of those >> computer illiterate schools (ETS slave, whatever). > > I think that comment is a little out of line. BTW big Oh is not part > of calculus, it's part of complexity theory, a totally different field > (more relevant to computers than calculus though). > Not part of calculus as commonly taught today, but *would* be if Donald Knuth had his way: http://micromath.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/donald-knuth-calculus-via-o-notation/ Kirby > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
