Asymptotic Growth

This leads us directly (!) to a notion of asymptotic growth.

Function g(n) is asymptotically bigger than function f(n) if, for any scaling factor c>0, there's some threshold n0 such that g(n) > c f(n) for all $n \ge n_0$.

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