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> from the definition of Big O notation, O(0) is nonsensical

Nitpick: not sure it's nonsensical. Plug g(x) = 0 into the usual definition, and you get |f(x)| ≤ k⋅0 for some k in R, which reduces to f(x) = 0. Which is not satisfiable by any nontrivial algorithm, so not very useful, but not nonsensical.



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