If you were stuck on a desert island with just one data structure, which would it be and why?
This is a silly but fun question, and after giving it some thought, my answer most likely shouldn't surprise most readers: A balanced binary se
Bloom Filters
Bloom filters have been around for a while, 1970 to be exact. They're not exactly the star of any university data structures class. There are much "sexier" (yeah, i know.) data structures like self balancing search trees, hash t
Part 2: expanding the collision resolution repertoire
Welcome back for part two of my articles on hash tables. In my previous article i covered the basics of linear probing. In this article i will discuss another popular collision resolution t
In part one of my article on open address hash tables i discuss hash functions, initializing the table and buckets, as well as insertion and searching via linear probing.
Red Black Trees
Balanced binary search trees are pervasive in modern software. Providing worst case performance of O(logN) red black trees are by far the most pervasive choice when it comes to their implementation. They are famously complicat
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Ternary Search Tries: String Specific Ordered Symbol Tables
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Digital Search Trees
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Lossless Compression Part III: Huffman Coding
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Lossless Compression Part II: The LZ77 Algorithm
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Lossless Compression Part I: Working with Bits in a Byte Oriented World
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Bottom Up AVL Tree: The OG Self-Balancing Binary Search Tree
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A Different Take on Merge Sort: Binary Search Trees?
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Deleting Entries From Open-Address Hash tables
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Transform any Binary Search Tree in to a Sorted Linked List
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From Regular Expressions To NFA by way of Abstract Syntax Trees: Thompsons Construction