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PHP 7 Data Structures and Algorithms
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PHP 7 Data Structures and Algorithms

by Mizanur Rahman
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Heap operations

As we have mentioned a few times that heap is a specialized tree data structure, we have to make sure that we first construct a heap from a given list of items. As heap has a strict heap property, we have to satisfy the heap property on each step. Here are some of the core operations for heap:

  • Create heap
  • Insert a new value
  • Extract minimum or maximum from heap
  • Remove a value
  • Swapping

Creating a heap from a given list of items or numbers requires us to ensure that both heap property and binary tree property are satisfied. Which means the parent node must be greater or less than the child nodes and that will be true for all nodes in the tree. Also the tree must be a complete binary tree all the time. While creating a heap, ...

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