With high probability

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[edit] Definition

An event occurs with high probability if, for any \alpha \geq 1, the event occurs with probability at least 1 - \frac{c_\alpha}{n^\alpha}, where cα depends only on α.

Since we can choose α, we can make the probability arbitrarily low, at a cost of time and/or space.

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