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by fjkdlsjflkds 838 days ago
> I don't actually know of any useful algorithms with worse asymptomatic behaviour.

Note: "asymptomatic" does not mean the same as "asymptotic"

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Most of my code has bad asymptomatic bugs but they never show up in testing because the tests don’t have data sets big enough to show the symptoms!