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[3.12] gh-113664: Improve style of Big O notation (GH-113695) (GH-113909)
Use cursive to make it looking like mathematic formulas. (cherry picked from commit a8629816c6c0e6770248a60529fd7c9ba08aad55) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
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@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ on the key and a per-process seed; for example, ``'Python'`` could hash to
to ``1142331976``. The hash code is then used to calculate a location in an
internal array where the value will be stored. Assuming that you're storing
keys that all have different hash values, this means that dictionaries take
-constant time -- O(1), in Big-O notation -- to retrieve a key.
+constant time -- *O*\ (1), in Big-O notation -- to retrieve a key.
Why must dictionary keys be immutable?