Which is faster O 1 or O log n?

As we increase the input size 'n', O(1) will outperforms O(log n). Let's see an example, suppose n = 2048, now Code 1 will take 4 ms as it took previously but Code 2 will take 11 ms to execute. In this case, O(1) outperformed O(log n).
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Is O 1 time algorithm the fastest?

The fastest possible running time for any algorithm is O(1), commonly referred to as Constant Running Time. In this case, the algorithm always takes the same amount of time to execute, regardless of the input size.
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Is log n bigger than 1?

log n is greater than 1 for every value of n > 10 (for log base 10). Basically the log in the nlogn is base 2. So for any n >= 2 you have logn >= 1 .
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Is log n faster than constant time?

constant time is better than log(n) time in most cases. In edge cases where log(n) is smaller than the constant it will be faster (in the real world). Remember that one billion and 1 are both "constant" in big O notation.
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Is O log n Slow?

In general, people have found algorithms that run faster than O(log n) which meet their expectations for memory management. Thus, any O(log n) algorithm is going to be marked as "too slow" by the general populous unless it offers some valuable feature to offset this speed change.
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Which time complexity is the fastest?

Constant-Time Algorithm - O (1) - Order 1: This is the fastest time complexity since the time it takes to execute a program is always the same. It does not matter that what's the size of the input, the execution and the space required to run this will be the same.
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What is faster than O log n?

For the input of size n, an algorithm of O(n) will perform steps proportional to n, while another algorithm of O(log(n)) will perform steps roughly log(n). Clearly log(n) is smaller than n hence algorithm of complexity O(log(n)) is better. Since it will be much faster.
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Is O log n faster than O n 2?

So, O(N*log(N)) is far better than O(N^2) . It is much closer to O(N) than to O(N^2) . But your O(N^2) algorithm is faster for N < 100 in real life.
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Which time complexity is best?

1. O(1) has the least complexity. Often called “constant time”, if you can create an algorithm to solve the problem in O(1), you are probably at your best.
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What is the order of time complexity?

Time Complexity/Order of Growth defines the amount of time taken by any program with respect to the size of the input. Time Complexity specifies how the program would behave as the order of size of input is increased. So, Time Complexity is just a function of size of its input.
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What is big O of log n?

Logarithmic time complexity log(n): Represented in Big O notation as O(log n), when an algorithm has O(log n) running time, it means that as the input size grows, the number of operations grows very slowly.
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Is log n slower than n?

logn! grows no slower than n. (Take log of both sides. Actually, it grows faster since logn!
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How do you show a function grows faster than another?

If f′(n)>g′(n) then f grows faster than g.
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Which is better O n or O log n?

O(n) means that the algorithm's maximum running time is proportional to the input size. basically, O(something) is an upper bound on the algorithm's number of instructions (atomic ones). therefore, O(logn) is tighter than O(n) and is also better in terms of algorithms analysis.
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Can you get faster than O 1?

The number of steps it takes before halting is 0. The Big-O of the trivial Turing machine is then O(0) which is "faster" than O(1) in some sense. es, but it depends on how we define the number of steps exactly, I would say that the trivial TM takes 1 step before halting.
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What is the slowest algorithm complexity?

Slowest = O(nn ) – Because of its time complexity, the most time-consuming function and the slowest to implement.
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Is on log n better than on?

Yes for Binary search the time complexity in Log(n) not nlog(n). So it will be less than O(n). But N*Log(N) is greater than O(N).
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What is the fastest sorting algorithm?

But since it has the upper hand in the average cases for most inputs, Quicksort is generally considered the “fastest” sorting algorithm.
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Which algorithm is faster according to given complexities?

Algorithms with higher complexity class might be faster in practice, if you always have small inputs. e.g. Insertion sort has running time \Theta(n^2) but is generally faster than \Theta(n\log n) sorting algorithms for lists of around 10 or fewer elements.
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Is O log n )) sorting algorithms always faster than O n2 algorithms?

No, O(n log n) algorithms are not always better than O(n^2) ones. The Big-O notation describes an upper bound of the asymptotic behavior of an algorithm, i.e. for n that tends towards infinity.
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Which time complexity is better n or n 2?

O(n) is asymptotically faster than O(n^2). You are right that n is the size of data. So, an algorithm which takes O(n) time to solve a problem is faster than another algorithm which takes O(n^2) time to solve the same problem.
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Which is better O n2 or O n3?

O(2n) is actually C*2n, where C is an arbitrary chosen positive constant. Likewise, O(n3) is D*n3, where D is another arbitrary chosen positive constant. The claim "O(n3) is more efficient than O(2n)" means that, given any fixed C and D, it is always possible to find such n0 that for any n >= n0, D*n3 < C*2n.
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Is n bigger than logN?

Comparing any logarithmic and linear function, the logarithmic function will always be smaller than the linear function for all values of N larger than some finite number. You would say that a O(logN) function grows asymptotically slower than a O(N) function.
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Which Big O Notation grows the fastest?

Run time of algorithms is expressed in Big O notation. O(log n) is faster than O(n), but it gets a lot faster as the list of items you're searching grows.
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Which Big O Notation has the worst time complexity?

Exact Steps > Big O

An algorithm takes 5 * N steps has complexity of O(N) in the worst case, which is smaller than the exact number of steps.
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