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by paulddraper
1032 days ago
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Yes, but... The mathematically rigorous form of the posed question is whether there is an algorithm with run time f(N) for which there exists strictly decreasing g(N) such that f(N) = O(g(N)). That is, the run time is bounded by a forever decreasing function. f(N) itself doesn't need to be strictly decreasing, but there needs to be a g(N) that is. Bottom line, no algorithm can have a forever decreasing run time as N increases. An algorithm can exhibit that behavior over a limited range of N, but that's not how complexity works. |
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Let's say my minimum runtime is 7, and the strictly decreasing bound on my runtime is g(N) = 1e15/N + 7
Doesn't that fit your description fine?