amoeba opened a new issue, #46642:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/46642

   ### Describe the enhancement requested
   
   At the top of the columnar docs, it states (emphasis mine):
   
   > The columnar format has some key features:
   > 
   > - Data adjacency for sequential access (scans)
   > - **O(1) (constant-time) random access**
   > ...
   
   
   I careful reader, such as @remysucre in 
https://github.com/apache/arrow/discussions/46577, might notice that the REE 
layout says,
   
   > This allows relatively efficient random access from a logical index using 
binary search.
   
   REE is the one exception to the previous statement about all layouts having 
O(1) random access because of this (making it O(log n)). It would be good to 
discuss and maybe update the columnar format to point this exception out.
   
   ### Component(s)
   
   Format


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