It looks like you're right -- but I did say O (rather than THETA), so I'm also technically correct. :-)

Peter Drake
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/



On Jul 20, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Richard J. Lorentz wrote:

Peter Drake wrote:
On Jul 20, 2007, at 8:04 AM, Jason House wrote:

I thought he was using the disjoint set! I'll recheck. Well written disjoint sets average out to nearly O(1) operations for everything.

Yes -- O(log* n) to be precise,  ...

At the risk of being accused of serious nit-picking here, I believe Tarjan proved that the bound is actually a bit better than that, namely the inverse of the Ackermann function.
_______________________________________________
computer-go mailing list
computer-go@computer-go.org
http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

_______________________________________________
computer-go mailing list
computer-go@computer-go.org
http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Reply via email to