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		forrestthewoods 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Ha... The fact that Big O notation is sometimes misleading or not helpful is not evidence that it is not generally useful. https://www.tumblr.com/accidentallyquadratic

qludes 4 months ago [–]

As a concept it is pretty useful for me in a handwavy astrophysics math way because I otherwise wouldn't necessarily know how to make my naive solution fit real world constraints.

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