Re: Salamin-Brent algorithm

On Jun 22, 12:26 am, Gerry Myerson <g...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <1182488069.831883.183...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

dgoldsmith_89 <d.l.goldsm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 21, 3:42 pm, Gerry Myerson <g...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In answer to your first message in this thread,
I think you don't know what the big-oh notation means.

I've seen it used two different ways in two different contexts; I know
the analysis meaning I imagine you think is the exclusively correct
use of the notation, but I have also seen it used the way I used it.

Can you cite somewhere where it is used to mean
something other than "less than a constant times"?

--
Gerry Myerson (g...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (i -> u for email)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation#Equals_or_member-of_and_other_notational_anomalies

See the sub-section titled "Infinite asymptotics." Granted, you may
quibble about the authority of something found in Wikipedia, but I
just used that 'cause it was the first thing that came up Google-ing -
this use, though perhaps "anomalous," is ubiquitous (in my experience)
in discussions of numerical methods in the applied math community. Be
any of that as it may, the bottom line is, proper or not, I made
myself understood (you accused me of being lazy at best, ignorant at
worst, not of failing to make myself understood). Why is it there are
always respondents on this list who assume that if you're posting a
question here, you're either lazy or ignorant? Didn't they ever learn
"if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all"? Or
maybe they all have Asperger's.

DG

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