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I know, but it was the most concise way I could express it.



Is there a problem with just leaving off the O() altogether?


I was going to say "but then you have to say 'complexity'", but I realised I already did, so I should have done that instead.


More concise and more accurate. You're a genius!


Right. Big O notation usually excludes constant factors, but here, the constant factors are the point.




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