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Indeed. It's been a while since I've had to so much as think about big O notation and I forgot that quirk. To most folks "exponential" means n^2 or greater


Most folks are using the word wrong then.


“Superlinear” is the word you’re looking for.


Superlinear can mean O(n log n) or anything like that, which is smaller than O(n^2).




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