How can I merge 2 given Skip lists
(each with n keys) into a one single Skip List
in O(n)
time complexity (worst case)?
Just looking for the algorithm 开发者_StackOverflow- no particular implementation/language.
store the two skip lists in two arrays: A,B
merge the arrays.
repeat until getting into root ('top' is a linked list containing only one element):
for each second entry in the skip list 'top' add a 'tag' (link 'upstairs' of the previous level)
it is indeed O(n) because store and merge are O(n), and in the loop, you need to iterate over:
n+n/2+n/4+n/8+... = sigma(n/2^k) where k in (0,infinity) = 2n
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