CIS 3020 Part 7
Contents
Complexity
- When computing O(), we are concerned with big values of n
- With big values, constants become ignorable
- Consider the two exponential functions we developed
- Let's count all operations (arithmetic, assignment, references, comparisons, etc.) the same with calls counting 20.
Exponentiation, O(N)
public int expt(int b, int n) {
int result;
if (n<=0) {
result = 1;
} else {
result = b * expt(b, n-1);
}
return result;
}
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2 1 3 3 28 2 ------ 39 |
Exponentiation, O(log N)
public int expt(int b, int n) {
return fastExpt(b,n);
}
private int fastExpt(int b, int n) {
int result;
if (n<=0) result = 1;
else if (even(n)) result = square(fastExpt(b, n/2));
else result = b * fastExpt(b, n-1);
return result;
}
private int square(int x) {
return (x * x);
}
private boolean even(int x) {
return (x % 2 == 0);
}
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2 23 2 1 6 67 28 2 1 4 1 6 ------ 143 |
Comparison
- some might argue that the second method is ~3.7 times as expensive
- And, even if it is O(log N), it will be slower than the first method
- Let's look at values to see if this is true...
| N | O(N) | O(log N) | 39*O(N) | 143*O(log N) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2|1|78|143 | ||||
| 4|2|156|286 | ||||
| 8|3|312|429 | ||||
| 16|4|624|572 | ||||
| 32|5|1248|715 | ||||
| 64|6|2496|858 | ||||
| 128|7|4992|1001 | ||||
| 256|8|9984|1144 | ||||
| 512|9|19968|1287 | ||||
| 1024|10|39936|1430 |
