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Editor Staff asked 5 months ago
Editor Staff asked 5 months ago
What is the time complexity for decreasing priority of key in a minimum ternary heap of n elements?
(a) O (log n/ log 3)
(b) O (n!)
(c) O (n)
(d) O (1)
Enquiry is from Ternary heap topic in section Heap of Data Structures & Algorithms I
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Editor">Editor Staff answered 5 months ago
Editor Staff answered 5 months ago
The correct option is (a) O (log n/ log 3)
Explanation: In order to decrease the priority of an item in a ternary heap data structure having n elements, the heap has great efficiency for decreasing them. So the time complexity for worst case is found to be O (log n/ log 3). This is due to the upwards swapping process.
