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I'm a mathematician and a computer scientist, so I must be one in a thousand. The link even indicates that ambiguity exists in wild, and I think clear notation would help.

In this case, the absurdity of the number suggests a more realistic number.



A good mnemonic is that a^b^c normally associates to the right because if you meant (a^b)^c, you could have just written a^(bc).


Don't you think it's more likely that the original poster made a mistake and that a graph algorithm isn't actually O(2^2^n)? I can't name a single meaningful algorithm that has that time complexity.




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