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    It is not the case that Feasibility judgments in practice are always made relative to specific input sizes, not abstract growth functions.

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    • 1.Growth functions precisely capture how feasibility *changes with scale*; dismissing them privileges anecdotal problem sizes over principled reasoning about scaling limits.
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    • 2.Without abstract growth analysis, practitioners cannot distinguish temporary bottlenecks from fundamental scalability failures, reducing their ability to anticipate future constraints.
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    • 3.Feasibility judgments tied only to current input sizes become outdated as data volumes grow; growth functions provide durable guidance across changing practical contexts.
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    • 1.Real engineering decisions require concrete thresholds: an O(n²) algorithm is acceptable for n<10⁶ but infeasible for n=10⁹, making growth rates alone insufficient.
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    • 2.Asymptotic analysis ignores constant factors and implementation details that dominate performance at practical problem sizes, misleading practitioners about actual feasibility.
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    • 3.Systems operate within fixed computational budgets (memory, time, power), making input-size-specific feasibility judgments necessary for responsible resource allocation.
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