DLOGTIME

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DLOGTIME is the complexity class of all computational problems solvable in a logarithmic amount of computation time on a deterministic Turing machine. It is (?) the smallest nontrivial class using the resource of deterministic time. It must be defined on a random-access Turing machine, since otherwise the machine does not have time to read the entire input tape.

DLOGTIME-uniformity is important in circuit complexity.

The problem of testing the length of the input string can be solved in DLOGTIME, by binary searching for possible input sizes.