Skew binomial heap
| Skew binomial heap | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Type | heap | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Invented | 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Invented by | Gerth Stølting Brodal and Chris Okasaki | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In computer science, a skew binomial heap (or skew binomial queue) is a data structure for priority queue operations. It is a variant of the binomial heap that supports constant-time insertion operations in the worst case, rather than amortized time.