'It was 182, not 128': The integer multiplication complexity lawyer meme
airkatakana · x · 2026-10-07
A CS/math lawyer meme: the poster jokes that the exponent in the integer multiplication complexity O(n(lg n)^(1-2^(-128))) reads like a legal defense — "your honor, my client couldn't have carried out this crime, they'd have had to multiply two n-bit integers in O(n(lg n)^(1-2^(-128))) worst-case time" — while correcting a number from 128 to 182, riffing on the Harvey–van der Hoeven breakthrough.
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