Talk:Asymptotic analysis

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Notation query: f ~ g can be written with the keyboard character ~. HTML isn't needed. For my browser this is fine.

Charles Matthews 11:15, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

On my current browser it looks fine, but whatever I was using before showed it up too high. I guess it is pot-luck according to the font one is using. Now I see there is a html entity: ∼ aka ∼   --Zero 11:43, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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To Michael's question: "Do some people prefer \ldots to \cdots between plus signs? Why?", my answers are (1) they have no artistic taste, (2) they are so old that they learned their typography on typewriters where temporarily shifting the baseline by a fraction of a line was too much trouble, (3) none of the above cos I just made them all up. ;-) -- Zero 03:59, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Could somebody please include some layman's language in this article at the top; just a sentence saying that asymptotic analysis covers how long something takes to be processed, or whatever the definition is. Thanks. -- Ian Howlett 19:30, 4 Jul 2005 (UTC)

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ISO 31-11 uses the Unicode character ≃ to denote "is asymptotically equal to". Is this character actually in usage? Wouldn't it then be a good addition to the this article? --Abdull 21:16, 28 May 2006 (UTC)