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Efficiency of a Good But Not Linear Set Union Algorithm

1975/04/01 by Robert E. Tarjan, Robert Endre Tarjan · 21 citations
Medicine · #Respiratory Support and Mechanisms #Respiratory Support and Mechanisms #Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/321879.321884

Abstract

TWO types of instructmns for mampulating a family of disjoint sets which partitmn a umverse of n elements are considered FIND(x) computes the name of the (unique) set containing element x UNION(A, B, C) combines sets A and B into a new set named C. A known algorithm for implementing sequences of these mstructmns is examined It is shown that, if t(m, n) as the maximum time reqmred by a sequence of m > n FINDs and n --1 intermixed UNIONs, then kima(m, n) _~ t(m, n) < k:ma(m, n) for some positive constants ki and k2, where a(m, n) is related to a functional inverse of Ackermann's functmn and as very slow-growing.

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