常數時間
外觀
在計算複雜度理論中,常數時間是一種時間複雜度,它表示某個演算法求出解答的時間在固定範圍內,而不依照問題輸入資料大小變化。
常數時間記為(採用大O符號)。數字1可以替換為任意常數。
舉例:
- 想在「存取陣列上的元素」的問題上達到常數時間,只要以元素的序位存取即可。
- 然而「在陣列上搜尋最小值」並不是一個常數時間問題,因為這需要掃描陣列上的每一個元素以尋找最小值及其位置,一般需要次訪問。
參考文獻
[編輯]書籍
[編輯]- Arora, Sanjeev; Barak, Boaz, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, Cambridge, 2009 [2018-01-19], ISBN 978-0-521-42426-4, Zbl 1193.68112, (原始內容存檔於2021-03-20)
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研究報告
[編輯]- Khalil, Hatem; Ulery, Dana, A Review of Current Studies on Complexity of Algorithms for Partial Differential Equations, Proceedings of the annual conference on - ACM 76 (ACM '76 Proceedings of the 1976 Annual Conference), 1976: 197, doi:10.1145/800191.805573
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