Editor Staff asked 5 months ago
A treap is a cartesian tree with ___________
(a) additional value, which is a priority value to the key generated randomly
(b) additional value, which is a priority value to the key generated sequentially
(c) additional heap rule
(d) additional operations like remove a range of elements
The query is from Cartesian Tree in portion Binary Trees of Data Structures & Algorithms I
The question was asked by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.
Editor Staff answered 5 months ago
Right choice is (a) additional value, which is a priority value to the key generated randomly
For explanation: A cartesian tree, if feeded with a sorted sequence will generate a straight path (or in tree terminology a skew tree). moreover a cartesian tree basing on same values from the search keys doesnot work well. so a cartesian tree with priority value in addition to search key is called treap.
