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Subject: Re: A final stab at big-O

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:23:27 05/09/01

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On May 09, 2001 at 20:14:41, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On May 09, 2001 at 19:36:18, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On May 09, 2001 at 19:34:35, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>>And it is clear that people who consider intractible problems to be O(1) are
>>>>using a set of definitions that are without value.
>>>
>>>I did not formulate the definition, but I do find it to be of value all the
>>>same.
>>
>>Valuable for WHAT?
>>
>>It certainly can't be used for computation if it delivers up answers like
>>"Chess is O(1)"
>
>
>It delivers the access of chess EGTBs as O(1) and I find that useful. It
>delivers n*n chess as O(exp(n)) and find that useful too. What am I missing?

You are missing that O(1) is the easiest class of computation, and O(exp(n)) is
of the class of intractible problems.  Chess solution is intractible and your
method classifies it as trivial.




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