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Re: Data structure challenge (amortized)

by Abigail-II (Bishop)
on Mar 18, 2004 at 00:15 UTC ( [id://337565]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: Data structure challenge (amortized)
in thread Data structure challenge

I'm not sure what you mean. Note that if you use an array, the array size is U. And, yes, n insertions, each taking constant time is O (n). However, initializing all elements of an array of size U takes Θ (U). But it's not given that U = O (n). There might only be O (sqrt (U)) insertions.

Abigail

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