On the random construction of heaps (Q1108784)
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On the random construction of heaps (English)
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1988
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We give a simple proof of the result of \textit{B. Bollobás} and \textit{I. Simon} [J. Algorithms 6, 466-477 (1985; Zbl 0592.68022)] on the linear expected time construction of a binary heap. We also give bounds on the probability that the construction time is much more than this and generalize the result to d-heaps, \(d\geq 2\).
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upper bound
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binary heap
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d-heaps
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