Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Week 10: Proofs of Big Omega

This week,we shifted our focuses gradually  from Big O to Big Omega. The proofs is kind of similar to that of Big O. And the main idea (and the hard part) of the proof is to find a magic breakpoint B and simplify the function without changing the highest degree, since the lower degrees are negligible compared to highest degrees and thus can be ignored. 

Also, prof taught us a way of determining if the functions satisfy the Big O or Big Omega by calculating the limit of the division of two functions as N goes to infinity. The limit will tell us the answer because it tells us the behavior of two functions near infinity and thus we can speculate the validity of f <= cg or f >= cg. 

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