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lemmy.world

You want to think your pile is O(1) for retrieval, but it's actually O(n).

Meanwhile, the closet actually is O(1) for retrieval, but you don't want to spend the time for the bulk insert it requires beforehand.

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  • O(n) worst case
  • O(log(n)) average case
  • O(1) best case
  • O(2) median case

That last one: it's a LIFO stack. You might not immediately wear what you threw on last night, but probably would wear the thong under that

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socsareply
piefed.social

Yeah I was going to say - unless your pile is ordered and indexed then it is not a cache and is more like random access.

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A pile is a messy stack, with access to push and pop only from the top. It is ordered (from the top down), but not indexed.

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Now if you store things in vertical stacks only accessible from above... Yeah I keep my clothes on the drying rack so I spend 0 time storing anything lol

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My pile of chairs on my clothe has a constant size. O(1) baby!

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lemmy.world

Not using a chair to store semi dirty clothes is absurd. Wearing shorts two days in a row saves a lot of laundry.

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