Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Normally this is called a polynomial, rather than exponential increase. > Exponential increases are typically of the form (C^N) (they are all > equivalent). > Polynomial times are hallways characterized by their largest exponent, > So you never call something O(N^3 - N^2) Since, as N gets large enough, > The N^2 term shrinks to non-existence.
Yup, you are of course, completely correct. I was thinking of "exponent here is two" and mistakenly named in exponential. my_text.replace('exponent','polynom'), there :) Reminding of ignoring terms with smaller exponent was good, too. -- # Edvard Majakari Software Engineer # PGP PUBLIC KEY available Soli Deo Gloria! $_ = '456476617264204d616a616b6172692c20612043687269737469616e20'; print join('',map{chr hex}(split/(\w{2})/)),uc substr(crypt(60281449,'es'),2,4),"\n"; -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list