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by JoshTriplett 4191 days ago
Division isn't O(1) for arbitrary values (potentially larger than a machine word).
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The same is true for comparison though, isn't it?
Sleep maxes out at 2147483647 = 2^31 seconds. Generally these problems assume the transdichotomous model, where the machine word size matches the problem size.