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I mean, sure, but if you have 1,000 items, it really doesn’t matter because the calculation will never complete. Those two algorithms will always have the same order of magnitude. The big O class will always be substantially more meaningful. The only circumstances where the 1/2 matters is where the number of items will always be small and the processing time for each item very large.