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In mathematical analysis, asymptotic analysis is a method of describing limiting behavior.

The method has applications across science.

Description

Examples are:

• In applied mathematics, asymptotic analysis is used to build numerical methods to approximate equation solutions.
• In computer science in the analysis of algorithms, considering the performance of algorithms when applied to very very big input datasets.
• The behavior of physical systems when they are very large, an example being statistical mechanics.
• In accident analysis when identifying the causation of crash through count modeling with large number of crash counts in a given time and space.

See also

• Asymptote
• Asymptotic computational complexity
• Asymptotic theory
• Asymptotic expansion
• Big O notation
• [[Leading-order term
• Limit (mathematics)
• Method of matched asymptotic expansions

External links

• Asymptotic analysis @ Wikipedia