Monday, August 19, 2013

JavaDoc Words

I find it interesting how much good documentation is on the java docs for  Java™ Platform Standard Ed. 6

In the webpage http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/RandomAccess.html the work asymptotically is used to define as: toward a line whose distance to a given curve tends to zero. An asymptote may or may not intersect its associated curve

Here they are using randomaccess to help improve performance of iterators of  lists.

This with http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/ArrayList.html you have the word amortized used: amortized constant time with big O notation. Amortize means to liquidate gradually.

amortize - liquidate gradually