It may be possible to construct an algorithm that is O(1/n). One example would be a loop that iterates some multiple of f(n)-n times where f(n) is some function whose value is guaranteed to be greater than n and the limit of f(n)-n as n approaches infinity is zero. The calculation of f(n) would also need to be constant for all n. I do not know off hand what f(n) would look like or what application such an algorithm would have, in my opinion however such a function could exist but the resulting algorithm would have no purpose other than to prove the possibility of an algorithm with O(1/n).

我猜小于O(1)是不可能的。算法所花费的任何时间都称为O(1)。但是对于O(1/n)下面的函数呢。(我知道这个解决方案中已经出现了许多变体，但我猜它们都有一些缺陷(不是主要的，它们很好地解释了这个概念)。这里有一个，只是为了方便讨论:

def 1_by_n(n, C = 10):   #n could be float. C could be any positive number
  if n <= 0.0:           #If input is actually 0, infinite loop.
    while True:
      sleep(1)           #or pass
    return               #This line is not needed and is unreachable
  delta = 0.0001
  itr = delta
  while delta < C/n:
    itr += delta

因此，随着n的增加，函数将花费越来越少的时间。此外，如果输入实际为0，则函数将永远返回。

有人可能会说，这将受到机器精度的限制。因此，由于c eit有一个上界，它是O(1)。但我们也可以绕过它，通过在字符串中输入n和C。加法和比较是对字符串进行的。用这个方法，我们可以把n减小到任意小。因此，即使忽略n = 0，函数的上限也是无界的。

我也相信我们不能说运行时间是O(1/n)。我们应该写成O(1 + 1/n)

It may be possible to construct an algorithm that is O(1/n). One example would be a loop that iterates some multiple of f(n)-n times where f(n) is some function whose value is guaranteed to be greater than n and the limit of f(n)-n as n approaches infinity is zero. The calculation of f(n) would also need to be constant for all n. I do not know off hand what f(n) would look like or what application such an algorithm would have, in my opinion however such a function could exist but the resulting algorithm would have no purpose other than to prove the possibility of an algorithm with O(1/n).

O(1)仅仅表示“常数时间”。

当你给循环[1]添加一个早期退出时，你(在大O符号中)把一个O(1)算法变成了O(n)算法，但使它更快。

诀窍是一般情况下，常数时间算法是最好的，线性算法比指数算法好，但对于n很小的时候，指数算法可能更快。

1:假设这个例子的列表长度是静态的

在数值分析中，近似算法在近似公差范围内应具有次常数的渐近复杂度。

class Function
{
    public double[] ApproximateSolution(double tolerance)
    {
        // if this isn't sub-constant on the parameter, it's rather useless
    }
}

那么这个呢:

void FindRandomInList(list l)
{
    while(1)
    {
        int rand = Random.next();
        if (l.contains(rand))
            return;
    }
}

随着列表大小的增加，程序的预期运行时间会减少。