6.7 - Improving Union Operations
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Practice Questions
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What are the two main operations of the Union-Find data structure?
💡 Hint: Think about the operations that help in managing components.
How does the find operation work?
💡 Hint: It queries the component label.
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What is the main challenge with basic union operations?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens during a merge.
Amortized complexity refers to:
💡 Hint: Consider how operations accumulate cost over time.
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Challenge Problems
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You have 1,000 elements and perform 750 union operations. Analyze how union-find could handle this efficiently.
💡 Hint: Focus on the efficiency that comes with clever data structuring.
Assuming a scenario where you frequently merge small components into a large one, explain how that impacts time complexity.
💡 Hint: Consider how the component sizes change over repeated operations.
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