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Everything's constant time in a universe with a finite lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe#...




Sure, but in such a world asymptotic complexity has little meaning. For practical purposes it's useful to make simplifying assumptions that are done in complexity theory.




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