{"title":"Storing a sparse table with O(1) worst case access time","authors":"M. Fredman, J. Komlos, E. Szemerédi","doi":"10.1145/828.1884","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We describe a data structure for representing a set of n items from a universe of m items, which uses space n+o(n) and accommodates membership queries in constant time. Both the data structure and the query algorithm are easy to implement.","PeriodicalId":127919,"journal":{"name":"23rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (sfcs 1982)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1982-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"949","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"23rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (sfcs 1982)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/828.1884","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 949
Abstract
We describe a data structure for representing a set of n items from a universe of m items, which uses space n+o(n) and accommodates membership queries in constant time. Both the data structure and the query algorithm are easy to implement.