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I am currently taking a discrete mathematics course this semester and I am a CS student. Therefore, I feel like I really need to understand the big-o and big-theta statements. I understood that they have a asymptotic property but I am not crystal clear about them. Can you explain them using graphs, if it is possible of course? I understand math with graphs that's why I asked for an explanation using graphs?

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Landau symbols talk about asymptotic behaviour up to constant factors. You won't be able to see much in a graph. This is something you have to understand from the definition and examples, I am afraid. That said, check this question once cs.SE is out of private beta (should happen soon). – Raphael Mar 18 '12 at 10:08
That's not good news but thank you for being honest. I will check the site when it goes public, right now I can't reach the question. – Mert Toka Mar 18 '12 at 13:29
In case you did not notice, the site is live now. – Raphael Mar 23 '12 at 14:36

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