What steps are involved in removing an element from a minheap?
What will be an ideal response?
The removal operation for a minheap is removeMin, which removes the smallest element from the
minheap. The smallest element is at the root. A replacement element for the root node must be determined to maintain the
property of being a tree. The element that is in the last node that was added to the tree is promoted to the root position in the
tree, which preserves the tree property. This element is by definition a leaf node, and it can be moved without concern for its
children. Next, the new root element must be compared against its smallest child and exchanged if necessary to preserve the
relation between nodes in a minheap. This comparison / exchange process continues until no exchange is necessary, at which
time the element is in its correct position in the tree, and the minheap relation is restored.
You might also like to view...
Suggest a scheme that improves on MobileIP for providing access to a web server on a mobile device which is sometimes connected to the Internet by mobile phone and at other times has a wired connection to the Internet at one of several locations.
What will be an ideal response?
What are int, date, and bit examples of in a SQL database?
A. data type B. condition C. column name D. record
Flash supports which of the following types of text?
a. TLF b. Heading c. Classic d. Valence
Big O notation describes ________.
a. the amount of memory required by an algorithm. b. the difficulty of writing an algorithm to solve a specific problem. c. an algorithm’s efficiency in terms of the work required to solve a problem. d. the length of an algorithm for solving a specific problem.