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isnt O(nĀ³) usually simplified to O(nĀ²) anyway ?

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Yes. The other answer is technically correct, but yours is pragmatically correct.

If a solution is worse than O(nln(n))* then most of us are going to be looking for a pragmatic and completely alternate way to deal with it, rather than analyzing how to make it mildly less terrible.

So Iā€™m just writing O(n^2) as a quick professional replacement for my original write in answer of ā€œdogshitā€.

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No, nĀ³ cannot be O(nĀ²) as otherwise that would mean that there exists a positive constant K and a positive threshold m such that for any integer n greater than m you would have nĀ³ less than K*nĀ², which would be the same as saying n less than K, which cannot hold for any integer n greater than m. So nĀ³ cannot be an O(nĀ²), which means that something that is an O(nĀ³) is not necessarily an O(nĀ²).

Itā€™s the other way around, if something is an O(nĀ²) then it is necessarily also an O(nĀ³).

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ok thanks

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Any algorithm can be O(n^2) if you only want it to be occasionally right.

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Yes.

And depending how occasionally weā€™re talking, I can code for some very fast solutions when the correctness requirements are low enough.

Alternately, if we want it to only be occasionally fast, Iā€™ve got a very nice looking and very wrong algorithm for that, as well.

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Any algorithm can be O(1) if you cache all the answers beforehand.

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Function isPrime(number):
    return false

Accurate for almost 100% of cases

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as test count approach infinity

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Impressive, very nice. Now letā€™s see LLMā€™s space complexity.

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Eggshellā€¦ and is thatā€¦ Gothic type?

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O(all the GPUs, all of them)

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Hey now, donā€™t forget all the memory too

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And my cache!

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