i was looking at the qsort(3) man page,
and saw "O N lg N", etc.
first i thought, maybe there should be some fancy utf8
math parentheses around, but looking at the source, no,
it's plain ascii.
a quick search in other man pages reveals an arguably
more readable style:
./share/man/man3/queue.3:o
frantisek holop wrote:
>
> i was looking at the qsort(3) man page,
> and saw "O N lg N", etc.
>
> first i thought, maybe there should be some fancy utf8
> math parentheses around, but looking at the source, no,
> it's plain ascii.
>
> a quick search in other man pages reveals an arguably
> more
Ted Unangst, 03 Mar 2015 11:13:
> frantisek holop wrote:
> >
> > i was looking at the qsort(3) man page,
> > and saw "O N lg N", etc.
> >
> > first i thought, maybe there should be some fancy utf8
> > math parentheses around, but looking at the source, no,
> > it's plain ascii.
> >
> > a quick s
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 05:02:39PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote:
> i leave the battle about lg vs log to others,
> but i prefer 'log' as there is a man page for that
> and there is none for 'lg'...
If anything, it should be "log" because that is the name of the
mathematical function. libm is compl
Joerg Sonnenberger, 03 Mar 2015 17:28:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 05:02:39PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote:
> > i leave the battle about lg vs log to others,
> > but i prefer 'log' as there is a man page for that
> > and there is none for 'lg'...
>
> If anything, it should be "log" because that is t
> On March 3, 2015 at 5:48 PM frantisek holop wrote:
> > If anything, it should be "log" because that is the name of the
> > mathematical function. libm is completely irrelevant in this context.
>
> 'lg' is also a valid name
When talking about big O notation, you want to trim as many constants a
On 3 March 2015, frantisek holop wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger, 03 Mar 2015 17:28:
> > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 05:02:39PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote:
> > > i leave the battle about lg vs log to others,
> > > but i prefer 'log' as there is a man page for that
> > > and there is none for 'lg'...
> >
Liviu Daia, 03 Mar 2015 19:26:
> > 'lg' is also a valid name
> > (altough i admit i didn't know, i was used to log2)
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm#Particular_bases
> >
> > as Tedu pointed out lg = log2 and lg != log
>
> Actually, that isn't what Tedu said, and it isn't the gener
In the most recent algorithms lecture I heard we used log for base 2, ln for
base e, and lg for base 10. But asymptotically the base doesn't matter and the
notation coventions differ. So I'd also go for consistency with other
documentation.
On March 3, 2015 5:48:20 PM CET, frantisek holop wro
