Math and physics explain the anguish of a golf ball that zings around the rim of the hole instead of falling in.

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False. While the speed of the computer is a factor, it's only one piece of the puzzle. The efficiency of an algorithm is primarily determined by its algorithmic complexity, which describes how the ...