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Comment by kaymanb

Disjoint-Sets have a very cool implementation whose amortized time complexity is extremely slow growing. It is not quite constant, but even for a disjoint-set with as many elements as there are particles in the universe, the amortized cost of an operation will be less than or equal to 4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure

parent kaymanb 4 years ago

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