27.12.08
The twelve days of Christmas
An amusing video via my favorite economist, even if it’s obviously not true to real life:
As a computer scientist my first thought is that it’s a very good thing there are only twelve days; imagine the cost if it were O(n2) rather than O(1)! (There’s a very large constant in this video’s case, of course, but as it’s not intended to accurately reflect reality there’s no reason to optimize. 
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“imagine the cost if it were O(n2) rather than O(1)!”
Yeah we’d have to listen to it FOREVER. Gah.
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Comment by Dan — 27.12.08 @ 7:31