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by kaashif 1109 days ago
Interesting abuse of big O notation there, since O(100M) = O(10) = O(1). Your statements make more sense without the O.
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I've seen the O(n) notation used quite a few times already to mean "order of magnitude of", instead of the usual Landau-big O.
but we have E exponent notation for that.