# Constant Amortized Time Constant Amortized Time means that the average cost of each operation over a sequence of operations is constant, even though some individual operations may take longer. This concept is used in situations where an operation may occasionally take much longer than usual, but these costly operations happen infrequently enough that, when averaged out over a series of operations, the time per operation is still considered constant.[^1] --- Bibliography: - [Amortized analysis - wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amortized_analysis) - [What is Constant Amortized Time? - stackoverflow.com](https://stackoverflow.com/q/200384/6251742) [^1]: One example of this is the [[Python]] list.append() [[Method]]: [Understanding python's len() time complexity - stackoverflow.com](https://stackoverflow.com/a/71685172/6251742)