How complex is complex?

[james at biosci.utexas.edu]

thanks, paul.

if i understand correctly, questions about "about how intricate [an]  
algorithm [is] (this affects its difficulty of implementation and  
understanding)" are also fair and deserve fair answers.

again, if i understand correctly, this issue gets its share of  
attention in computer sciences, and cs teachers discuss it in class,  
passing along their own appreciation of it to their students.

- james

Quoting Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid>:

> james at biosci.utexas.edu writes:
>> donald knuth's anaylses of the computational complexity of algorithms
>
> I think the question was about how intricate the algorithm was (this
> affects its difficulty of implementation and understanding), not its
> computational complexity.
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