[HN Gopher] O(zero)
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       O(zero)
        
       Author : koliber
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-02-17 13:11 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (koliber.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (koliber.com)
        
       | dartos wrote:
       | It's kind of an empty read.
        
         | az09mugen wrote:
         | Nice pun !
        
       | cmrx64 wrote:
       | There's a rich tradition in the Clarkson Open Source Institute of
       | identifying these "O(fuckit)" algorithms, because by the time
       | you've asked the question, it's too late to spend any computation
       | getting the answer, so the only possibility for O(0) is an
       | algorithm you never run because the only answer you can get is a
       | shrug and "fuckit". Unfortunately the wiki documenting examples
       | is offline...
       | 
       | To put it another way, "What's the class of algorithms where
       | writing down the input string inherently already provided the
       | answer"
       | 
       | Slightly different than the class of stupid bullshit you
       | shouldn't have been doing in the first place :)
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2024-02-17 23:01 UTC)