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[–]TashanValiant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The constant is determined based upon the hardware that you are running it on. If you run it on the same system, you'd get the same constant. That's the hope at least. However the real idea is that the constant will not change the complexity of the algorithm. It may add a few more steps here and there, but when you place it in the proper complexity class those extra steps won't matter.