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Comment by wizzwizz4

2 days ago

Those last two notations are, formally, the same. To call a part negligible, we say it's asymptotically bounded above by a constant multiple of this expression, which obviously goes away as we approach the limit. The first one is a colloquial alternative definition that would probably be considered "wrong" in formal writing.

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jcgrillo  2 days ago

Agreed

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