Top "Amortized-analysis" questions

An amortized analysis is an analysis of the total runtime of a set of operations rather than the individual runtime of any one operation.

What is amortized analysis of algorithms?

How is it different from asymptotic analysis? When do you use it, and why? I've read some articles that seem …

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Why is the time complexity of python's list.append() method O(1)?

As seen in the documentation for TimeComplexity, Python's list type is implemented is using an array. So if an array …

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Amortized complexity in layman's terms?

Can someone explain amortized complexity in layman's terms? I've been having a hard time finding a precise definition online and …

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Amortized time of dynamic array

As a simple example, in a specific implementation of the dynamic array, we double the size of the array each …

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Amortized Analysis of Algorithms

I am currently reading amortized analysis. I am not able to fully understand how it is different from normal analysis …

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Amortized analysis of std::vector insertion

How do we do the analysis of insertion at the back (push_back) in a std::vector? It's amortized time …

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