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4. Divide & Conquer: van Emde Boas Trees

Professors of Computer Science

1:20:14·2016·undergraduate level

This lecture introduces the van Emde Boas tree, a specialized tree data structure designed for efficient predecessor, successor, minimum, and maximum queries on integers within a known range. Professor Demaine details its recursive divide-and-conquer construction and analyzes its O(log log U) time complexity.

MIT 6.046J Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Spring 2015

View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-046JS15

Instructor: Erik Demaine

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