Plain English Explanation of Big O Notation
http://www.cforcoding.com/2009/07/plain-english-explanation-of-big-o.html
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One of the best laypersons explanation of algorithm complexity that I've seen.
Traditional computers can solve problems in polynomial time. Certain things are used in the world because of this. Public Key Cryptography is a prime example. It is computationally hard to find two prime factors of a very large number. If it wasn't, we couldn't use the public key systems we use.
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