Heap in a sentence

Nor is the addition of a single grain of sand enough to transform a non-heap into a heap: when we have a collection of grains of sand that is not a heap, then adding but one single grain will not create a heap.

After an element is inserted into or deleted from a heap, the heap property may be violated and the heap must be balanced by internal operations.

A heap can be classified further as either a "max heap" or a "min heap".

A multiple-heap rule seeAlso In another variation of Nim, besides removing any number of objects from a single heap, one is permitted to remove the same number of objects from each heap.

The heap relation mentioned above applies only between nodes and their parents, grandparents, etc. The maximum number of children each node can have depends on the type of heap, but in many types it is at most two, which is known as a binary heap.

The PEA demonstrates the potential viability of mining the Inferred Mineral Resources in an open pit, heap leach mine with heap leach feed material trucked from three proximal deposits (Boin, Nyam, Sewum) to a central crushing and process facility.

For example, the number 4 is realized in the relation between a heap of parrots and the universal "being a parrot" that divides the heap into so many parrots.

In Java compound types are always allocated on the heap and collected by the garbage collector (except in virtual machines that use escape analysis to convert heap allocations to stack allocations).

Operations The common operations involving heaps are: ;Basic * find-max or find-min: find the maximum item of a max-heap or a minimum item of a min-heap (a.

Specialized heaps There are several specialized heap data structures that either supply additional operations or outperform heap-based implementations for specific types of keys, specifically integer keys.

The algorithm then repeatedly swaps the first value of the list with the last value, decreasing the range of values considered in the heap operation by one, and sifting the new first value into its position in the heap.

The German people should probably, in his view, remain a mass of identical "individuals" in an enormous sand heap or ant heap, identical even to the color of their shirts, the garment nearest to the body.

The ternary heap does two steps in less time than the binary heap requires for three steps, which multiplies the index by a factor of 9 instead of the factor 8 of three binary steps.

This min heap priority queue uses the min heap data structure which supports operations such as insert, minimum, extract-min, decrease-key.

To perform decrease-key steps in a binary heap efficiently, it is necessary to use an auxiliary data structure that maps each vertex to its position in the heap, and to keep this structure up to date as the priority queue changes.

When a heap is a complete binary tree, it has a smallest possible height—a heap with N nodes always has log N height.

Also, Cyprus was bottom of the heap in terms of the number of electrical passenger vehicles with batteries.

And I am sure it won’t go down a huge heap in Norway.

Another few swipes and the claw was eating into the room below, a rubble heap growing out of what was once a destination for families on vacation and businessmen on the road.

A report just out from Zillow data shows Garden State homes are still among the most costly in the nation even if not at the top of that expensive heap.