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moregristtoday at 5:19 PM1 replyview on HN

You don’t learn Big-O in Calculus because it requires CS algorithmic concepts.

But the core question of “how does this behave as N -> \infty?” is asymptotic behavior (ie: limits) which were developed for calculus and are very much part of the foundational calculus canon.


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BigTTYGothGFtoday at 7:39 PM

> You don’t learn Big-O in Calculus because it requires CS algorithmic concepts

Big O notation was invented in 1894.