Thursday, August 4, 2011

Determine whether the kth largest element of the heap is greater than x or not.

Consider a binary heap containing n numbers (the root stores the greatest number). You are given a positive integer k < n and a number x . You have to determine whether the kth largest element of the heap is greater than x or not. Your algorithm must take O(k) time. You may use O(k) extra storage.

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