Quote #22 Posted at Tue 09 Feb 2010, 16:46 UTC Score: -47 good meh sucks
(One) Maelin wisps: Worst case is not the key, average case is the key. Dang you computer scientists don't know crap about probability :P
(One) Pit wisps: Yes, but for the complexity of your algorithm, you must optimise the worst case complexity.
(One) Aikanaro wisps: I have a funny story about probability, Maelin.
(One) Maelin wisps: No, you must optimise the average case complexity :P
(One) Aikanaro wisps: Imagine you have three boxes, two of which contain goats.
(One) Pit wisps: And I'm a mathematician as well as a computer scientist, Maelin. :)
(One) Maelin wisps: The average case complexity is the one you expect to get EVERY SINGLE TIME.
(One) Aikanaro wisps: The third contains the abstract concept of love.
(One) Beale wisps: As morphised as a third goat.
(One) Jessie wisps: if you open the box, does it die?
(One) Tony wisps: Only if you stab it
(One) Aikanaro wisps: If you open the box the abstract concept of love will always be in one of the two boxes you didn't choose, Jessie.
(One) Aikanaro wisps: And then you spend the rest of your life regretting your choice. :o(
(One) Drakkos wisps that it :-(
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