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1. actuat+(OP)[view] [source] 2019-05-28 15:41:55
Well, that represents the asymptotic time complexity. So, roughly with an increasing N it increases by log of it. Here is an example of the log(base 2) function growth.

Log(4) = 2, Log(16) = 4, Log(256) = 8, Log(65536) = 16, Log(4,294,967,296) = 32

Assuming other things remaining unaffected, theoretically that means in a set of 4 million the operation should be about 4 times slower than in a set of 250 elements.

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