Talk:Iterated logarithm

message: "The disjoint set data structure's union and find operations" is given as an example algorithm using iterated log complexity, but Disjoint_set_data_structure mentions the (better) inverse Ackermann bound.
-- hagman --195.227.74.194 10:11, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, there's an old version that has iterated log complexity. I can't recall its name off the top of my head. CRGreathouse (t | c) 17:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Iterated log vs Ackermann

message: Do Iterated logarithm and Law of the iterated logarithm have something in common despite the name? --Abdull 13:31, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vs. "Law of"

message: It would be nice if Figure 1 illustrated the line segments shown with arrowheads 12.208.40.109 16:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I can fix this. Dcoetzee 23:52, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Figure 1

message: I haven't finished reading it yet, but there's a mention of the iterated logarithm in Sublogarithmic Ambiguity that may be of use in the article. CRGreathouse (t | c) 07:19, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I read that paper, and the O(n^{\log*n}) bit was a joke.  I don't mean "a joke" in the sense of "not adequately demonstrated" but rather "accompanied by a smiley and meant to be amusing." 74.74.206.149 (talk) 13:25, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agreed, it was just making a point. CRGreathouse (t | c) 18:45, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Another:  CRGreathouse (t | c) 02:35, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference? 

message: Is the log*n function the same as the {\psi(X)} function described in Symmetric level-index arithmetic? Do the different names for the function (generalized logarithm vs. iterated logarithm) just come from the fact that they arose in different branches of math? --Rpresser 22:04, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They're almost the same: \log^*x=\lfloor\psi(x)\rfloor, provided x ≥ 0. CRGreathouse (t | c) 22:57, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Symmetric level-index arithmetic]] 

message: See Talk:Time complexity#HTML log-star for a discussion regarding how to write  in Wikipedia. As a result of the discussion, I created the simple templates  and  and edited this article as well. — Miym (talk) 21:20, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:   HTML log-star 

message: Should be redirected here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.126.183.46 (talk) 15:30, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: But why? Does any article link to it? In any case, done. log* already redirected here since a long time ago. Shreevatsa (talk) 16:04, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  log* n 

message: Quoting from the lead:
I'm a little rusty right now, so i couldn't readily explain to myself why would lower values not generate a sequence { x_0 = 0, x_{n+1} = b^{x_n} } that grows up to infinity... It's obviously monotonically increasing, but i just don't see the reason why it would have a finite bound. Can anyone provide a hint? -- Jokes Free4Me (talk) 17:12, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation of "well-defined" statement 

message: I think the complexity of Fürer's algorithm is n \log n\,2^{O(\log^* n)} (see Fürer's_algorithm), and not, as mentioned here, O(n log n 2 n). These bounds are different, because there is a "better" algorithm with complexity O(n \log n\,2^{3 \log^* n}) (see also Fürer's_algorithm), which is even worse than O(n log n 2 n).
So I think this must be corrected here.
:Yes, changing expressions of the form aO(b) to O(ab) is a frequent mistake. I've fixed this one. Thanks for catching it. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:40, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complexity of Fürer's algorithm 

message: The mathematical definition given is recursive. The very term has the word 'iterated' in it, and the iterative version is indeed simpler to understand. Should we give that as well? Here's some pseudo code of the function:
 int iteratedLog (float n, float b) {
     count = 0;
     while (n >= 1.0) {
         n = LogBase b (n);
         count = count+1;
     }
     return count;
 }
--Skytopia (talk) 11:57, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iterative function as well as recursive?