7.6 - Maintaining Component Information
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Practice Questions
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What is the primary purpose of the union-find data structure?
💡 Hint: Think about set operations.
What does the find operation do?
💡 Hint: It helps you locate the root of an element's component.
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What is the complexity of the union operation in the pointer-based union-find structure?
💡 Hint: Consider how many steps are needed to perform this operation.
True or False: Path compression increases the time for future find operations.
💡 Hint: Think about the benefit of having shorter paths.
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Design an algorithm that takes a series of union operations followed by find operations on a union-find data structure. Analyze the complexity of your solution.
💡 Hint: Focus on balancing your merges during union operations.
Given a sequence of union and find operations, outline how you would visualize the union-find tree and the paths followed in find operations.
💡 Hint: Keep track of each operation and its effect on the tree structure.
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