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in reply to Re: Puzzle: Longest Increasing Sequence
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Actually, O(n*log(n)**((sqrt(5)-1)/2)) is strictly less than O(n*log(n)). The difference probably won't be noticeable for reasonable values of n, though, since log(n) grows so slowly anyway.