没有比O(1)小的数 大o符号表示算法的最大复杂度

如果一个算法的运行时间是n³+ n²+ n + 5那么它就是O(n³) 低次在这里根本不重要，因为n ->正无穷，n^2与n^3相比是无关的

同样地，当n -> Inf时，O(1/n)与O(1)相比是不相关的，因此3 + O(1/n)将与O(1)相同，从而使O(1)的计算复杂度最小

如果解决方案存在，它可以在常数时间=立即准备和访问。例如，如果您知道排序查询是针对倒序的，则使用LIFO数据结构。然后，假设选择了适当的模型(LIFO)，数据就已经排序了。

其余的大多数答案都将大o解释为专门关于算法的运行时间。但是因为问题没有提到它，我认为值得一提的是大o在数值分析中的另一个应用，关于误差。

Many algorithms can be O(h^p) or O(n^{-p}) depending on whether you're talking about step-size (h) or number of divisions (n). For example, in Euler's method, you look for an estimate of y(h) given that you know y(0) and dy/dx (the derivative of y). Your estimate of y(h) is more accurate the closer h is to 0. So in order to find y(x) for some arbitrary x, one takes the interval 0 to x, splits it up until n pieces, and runs Euler's method at each point, to get from y(0) to y(x/n) to y(2x/n), and so on.

欧拉方法是O(h)或O(1/n)算法，其中h通常被解释为步长n被解释为你划分一个区间的次数。

在实际数值分析应用中，由于浮点舍入误差，也可以有O(1/h)。你的间隔越小，某些算法的实现就会抵消得越多，丢失的有效数字就越多，因此在算法中传播的错误也就越多。

For Euler's method, if you are using floating points, use a small enough step and cancellation and you're adding a small number to a big number, leaving the big number unchanged. For algorithms that calculate the derivative through subtracting from each other two numbers from a function evaluated at two very close positions, approximating y'(x) with (y(x+h) - y(x) / h), in smooth functions y(x+h) gets close to y(x) resulting in large cancellation and an estimate for the derivative with fewer significant figures. This will in turn propagate to whatever algorithm you require the derivative for (e.g., a boundary value problem).

O(1)仅仅表示“常数时间”。

当你给循环[1]添加一个早期退出时，你(在大O符号中)把一个O(1)算法变成了O(n)算法，但使它更快。

诀窍是一般情况下，常数时间算法是最好的，线性算法比指数算法好，但对于n很小的时候，指数算法可能更快。

1:假设这个例子的列表长度是静态的

好吧，我想了一下，也许有一个算法可以遵循这个一般形式:

你需要计算一个1000节点图的旅行商问题，但是，你也有一个你不能访问的节点列表。随着不可访问节点列表的增加，问题变得更容易解决。

It may be possible to construct an algorithm that is O(1/n). One example would be a loop that iterates some multiple of f(n)-n times where f(n) is some function whose value is guaranteed to be greater than n and the limit of f(n)-n as n approaches infinity is zero. The calculation of f(n) would also need to be constant for all n. I do not know off hand what f(n) would look like or what application such an algorithm would have, in my opinion however such a function could exist but the resulting algorithm would have no purpose other than to prove the possibility of an algorithm with O(1/n).