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While not technically correct the meaning is clear enough and commonly used as shorthand for "on the order of"

I thought O(1) = O(100) so it would still technically be correct, no?

Edit: O(1) technically is O(100) but that's probably not what they meant.

It would be technically correct if what he meant was that the problem would be solved in constant time.

I bet it wasn't.