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Big-Theta Notation

Last updated Nov 16, 2021 Edit Source

Big-Theta notation

Big theta notation is a little more complicated, the Big-Theta notation covers both the worst and best-case scenarios that an algorithm might have relative to its input (n). So it essentially is a combination of both Big-Oh Notation and Big Omega Notation. Since we are trying to cover two cases, the calculation is quite different:

# Calculating Big Theta

A function $f(n)$ is said to be $\Theta(g(n))$ if there exists constants $c’ > 0$, $c’’ > 0$ and $n_0 > 1$ such that:

$$\forall n (n > n_0 \implies c’g(n) \leq f(n) \leq c’‘g(n))$$


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