this might help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_algorithms

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Tobiah <t...@rcsreg.com> wrote:

> It gets used here frequently, but not
> having majored in programming, I'm not
> familiar with it.  One might say:
>
> Don't do it that way, it will result in O(n**2)!
>
> Or something like that.  I read this to mean
> that the execution time varies with the square
> of the number of iterations, or items being sorted
> etc..
>
> I want to google this, but I'm not sure what
> keywords to use.  Is there a wikipedia article about this
> subject?  I imagine that it has a concise name.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tobiah
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