Data Structures19 sections · 729 units
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Union-Find Concepts
What does path compression do in Union-Find, and why is it important?
- A.Prevents cycles from forming in the underlying graph
- B.Makes every node on the find path point directly to the root, giving near-constant time operations
- C.Removes nodes from the data structure to save memory
- D.Sorts the elements within each component