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Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30pm US/Eastern)
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In Elements of Programming Interviews in Python by Aziz, Lee and Prakash, they state on page 41:




Insertion into a full array can be handled by resizing, i.e.,
allocating a new array with additional memory and copying over the
entries from the original array. This increases the worst-case time of
insertion, but if the new array has, for example, a constant factor
larger than the original array, the average time for insertion is
constant since resizing is infrequent.




I grasp the concept of amortization that seems to be implied here, yet they seem to imply that in other cases, a newly allocated array could possess a constant factor smaller than the original array. Is that so? What does "constant factor" mean in this particular context? I'm having trouble understanding what's being said here.










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    In Elements of Programming Interviews in Python by Aziz, Lee and Prakash, they state on page 41:




    Insertion into a full array can be handled by resizing, i.e.,
    allocating a new array with additional memory and copying over the
    entries from the original array. This increases the worst-case time of
    insertion, but if the new array has, for example, a constant factor
    larger than the original array, the average time for insertion is
    constant since resizing is infrequent.




    I grasp the concept of amortization that seems to be implied here, yet they seem to imply that in other cases, a newly allocated array could possess a constant factor smaller than the original array. Is that so? What does "constant factor" mean in this particular context? I'm having trouble understanding what's being said here.










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      In Elements of Programming Interviews in Python by Aziz, Lee and Prakash, they state on page 41:




      Insertion into a full array can be handled by resizing, i.e.,
      allocating a new array with additional memory and copying over the
      entries from the original array. This increases the worst-case time of
      insertion, but if the new array has, for example, a constant factor
      larger than the original array, the average time for insertion is
      constant since resizing is infrequent.




      I grasp the concept of amortization that seems to be implied here, yet they seem to imply that in other cases, a newly allocated array could possess a constant factor smaller than the original array. Is that so? What does "constant factor" mean in this particular context? I'm having trouble understanding what's being said here.










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      In Elements of Programming Interviews in Python by Aziz, Lee and Prakash, they state on page 41:




      Insertion into a full array can be handled by resizing, i.e.,
      allocating a new array with additional memory and copying over the
      entries from the original array. This increases the worst-case time of
      insertion, but if the new array has, for example, a constant factor
      larger than the original array, the average time for insertion is
      constant since resizing is infrequent.




      I grasp the concept of amortization that seems to be implied here, yet they seem to imply that in other cases, a newly allocated array could possess a constant factor smaller than the original array. Is that so? What does "constant factor" mean in this particular context? I'm having trouble understanding what's being said here.







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