What does "space complexity" mean?

A measure of the amount of space, or memory required by an algorithm to solve a given decision problem. An informal analogy would be the amount of scratch paper needed while working out a problem with pen and paper.

Space complexity

Q: What is a synonym for "space complexity"?

Common synonyms include: computational cost, full memory footprint, global memory usage, memory consumption, memory footprint, memory requirement.

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A measure of the amount of space, or memory required by an algorithm to solve a given decision problem. An informal analogy would be the amount of scratch paper needed while working out a problem with pen and paper. uncountable, usually

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computational cost full memory footprint global memory usage memory consumption memory footprint memory requirement

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time complexity

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