Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Entry #7- Big Omega

 I performed extremely well on the mid-term. It was reassuring that a lot of the questions resembled ones we had gone over previously with some minor differences. Also, I was able to score well on the quiz in last week's tutorial, so my results on both evaluations were definitely a confidence booster.

We learned more of boundings  of functions this week. Since, there exist of an upper bound(big O) there should be lower bound for function. This lower bound is called big omega(Ω) and in symbolic form, it is written as

This definition is saying g grows at least as fast as f thus it is lower bound.
The most important part of Big-Omega is also finding c and  b that satisfies the inequality.

When Proving Big Omega, proof structure looks like this.

Let c = __
Let B = __
Assume n ∈ N
     Assume n >= B
       
                  .
                  .    #playing around number until I get f(n)>=c g(n)

          Then f(n)>=c g(n)
     Then n>= B  ->f(n)>=c g(n)
Then  ∃ c ∈ R+    ∃ B ∈ N     ∀n ∈ N    n>=B  ->  f(n)>=c g(n)

1 comment:

  1. I like how you give the structure of the big-omega proof. Looks great! It helped me, too. Thanks!

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