[CentOS] [OT] stable algorithm with complexity O(n)

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Jerry Franz wrote:
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> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> [...]
>> Basically, count the number of appearances of every number in your set. If you 
>> have a set a priori bounded from above and below --- which you do,
>> [1, n^2] --- you first allocate an array of integers of length n^2. 
> 
> By definition, your proposed algorithm is O(n^2), not O(n).

No it isn't, it's O(n) in time.
O(n^2) in memory but that wasn't the question, right?