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cubefoxyesterday at 1:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Ryan Williams found that any problem solvable in time t needs only about sqrt(t) bits of memory

At least or at most or on average?


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user070223yesterday at 1:55 PM

I've skimmed the result couple of weeks ago, and if I remember it states that there from all machines which takes t time to accomplish something there is one such that sqrt(t) memory is used. so it's at most but not on avg nor amorotized[not sure if et even make sense it the space where the problem lies] (you take the least memory hungry machine)

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jeanlucasyesterday at 2:21 PM

In the best case

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