@Article{benamramjones99, author = "A. Ben-Amram and N. D. Jones", year = "1999", title = "A precise version of a time hierarchy theorem", journal = "Fundamenta Informaticae", volume = "38", pages = "1--15", note = "Special issue dedicated to {A}rto {S}alomaa", keywords = "time complexity, hierarchy theorem, universal program", summary = "Using a simple programming language as a computational model, Neil Jones has shown that a constant-factor time hierarchy exists: thus a constant-factor difference in time makes a difference in problem-solving power, unlike the situation with Turing machines. In this note we review this result and fill in the details of the proof, thus obtaining a {\em precise version} of the theorem with explicit constant factors. Specifically, multiplying the running time by 232 provably allows more decision problems to be solved.", puf = "Artikel optaget i tidsskrift", }