Storing a sparse table with O(1) worst case access time

  • Authors:
  • Michael L. Fredman;Janos Komlos;Endre Szemeredi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '82 Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1982

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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.