10. Height of the Heap
Heaps are data structures designed for efficiently implementing priority queues, offering logarithmic time complexity for insertions and deletions. By contrasting max heaps with min heaps, the chapter highlights their respective roles in prioritizing maximum and minimum values. Additionally, the process of building heaps via bottom-up approaches is introduced, demonstrating a more efficient O(N) method compared to the naive O(N log N) approach.
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What we have learnt
- Heap structures allow efficient insertion and deletion of elements in logarithmic time.
- Understanding max heaps and min heaps is crucial for working with priority queues effectively.
- The bottom-up method for heapification significantly reduces the time complexity to O(N).
Key Concepts
- -- Heap
- A tree-based data structure that meets the heap property; in max heaps, every parent node is greater than or equal to its children.
- -- Priority Queue
- An abstract data type where each element has a priority, with lower priority values indicating higher importance.
- -- Logarithmic Time Complexity
- A rate of growth that indicates an operation will take time proportional to the logarithm of the number of inputs, ensuring efficient processing.
- -- Heapification
- The process of converting a binary tree into a heap, maintaining the heap property.
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