6 - Union-Find Data Structure
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Practice Questions
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What does the find operation do in Union-Find?
💡 Hint: Think about how you check for a group or a team.
How does the union operation affect two disjoint sets?
💡 Hint: Imagine combining two groups into one larger group.
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What is the primary function of the union operation?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens during a team merger.
True or False: Path compression only applies during the union operation.
💡 Hint: Remember where path compression is most helpful.
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Given a list of edges in a graph, demonstrate how the Union-Find structure can be used to detect cycles.
💡 Hint: Start with each vertex in its own set, and apply union carefully.
Develop an alternative implementation of Union-Find that uses linked lists instead of arrays, and analyze its efficiency.
💡 Hint: Think about the operations in linked lists and how to traverse them.
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