Sorting the order of growth of the functions? [closed]

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Please order the function belows by growth rate from fastest to slowest:

• n^10
• 2^n
• nlog(n)
• 10^6

And my answer is:

• 2^n
• n^10
• nlog(n)
• 10^6

Is my answer correct?

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That seems about right. As way of education, consider what happens when you feed in different n values (using rough powers of 10 rather than exact values):

 n      2^n       n^10    n log n   10^6
 ----   -------   -----   -------   ----
    1   10^0.3    10^0    10^0      10^6
   10   10^3      10^10   10^1      10^6
  100   10^30     10^20   10^2      10^6
 1000   10^301    10^30   10^3      10^6
10000   10^3010   10^40   10^4      10^6

So, in terms of how fast they grow, you're list is correct.

• 106 doesn't grow at all.
• n log n increases its power-of-ten by one for each step.
• n10 increases its power-of-ten by 10 for each step.
• 2n multiplies its power-of-ten by ten each step.