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orthebox

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orthebox··on What counts as a step?
I always thought that mathematical operations run in constant time ... how can they not?
orthebox··on What counts as a step?
So basically every computation counts as a step?

But how about control structures? Like in Python:

"for i in range(4)", how many steps are there?