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by robbintt 998 days ago
For software contexts, we refer to space as memory or overall storage depending on the architecture.
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Yet when refering to both space and time, you should consider explicating that space = memory, time = time.
> you should consider explicating that space = memory, time = time.

That seems unnecessary. Even a layman knows that in the context of a computer, space != physical space. Most people think of disk space, but it can also refer to memory usage [0]. The meaning of the name was obvious to me after reading the first half of the first sentence of the article. I thought it was clever :)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_complexity