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That's not true, big-O notation (also called Landau symbols) was used as early as 1894 by Paul Bachmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation)

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According to that Wikipedia article, Knuth popularized the notation in computer science, which might be what the comment to which you replied is referencing.

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