van Emde Boas tree

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Named after Peter van Emde Boas.

Noun[edit]

van Emde Boas tree (plural van Emde Boas trees)

  1. (computer science) A tree data structure that implements an associative array with keys of up to m bits. It can perform all operations in a time proportional to the log of the size of its largest element, or equivalently with an upper bound equal to the logarithm of 2 multiplied by m.
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