[veltas]

If you want to measure growth based on another variable you are allowed to do so, but for most algorithms I'm more interested in the growth of time according to input size.

[recursive]

Then we may conclude that you may not be interested in this.

[veltas]

What do you mean by this? I was interested in article and parent, that's why I responded.

[recursive]

You said "really it's worse than exponential". But that's based on your own personally-interesting way of measuring n, which is inconsistent with the given way.