There are other weird formatting things in this article, which I blame on AI. I don't think the whole article was written by AI, but the copy-editing and formatting looks like an AI messed up things, such as those pointless round brackets or the inconsistency of multiplication (sometimes there is a × sign, sometimes there isn't), or this:
> have suspected that O(n²) was an inherent speed limit for multiplication. The celebrated Soviet math professor Andrey Kolmogorov posed the O(n^2)
The AI can't decide on notation.