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

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Jerry Franz wrote:
> 
> Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>> Jerry Franz wrote:
>>> 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?
> 
> Look closer at it.
> 
> "[...]
> you first allocate an array of integers of length n^2. Set all
> elements to zero,"
> [...]
> go through the whole set from 1 to n^2, and if the value of k-th element 
> is nonzero, print number k appropriate number of times.
> [...]"
> 
> O(n^2) operations are required. It is O(n^2) both in time and memory as 
> described.
> 

oh, I see
thanks for explaining!