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by Leftium
1198 days ago
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Ternary minimizes both the length and number of different symbols used to express a range of numbers[1]. Heap trees were probably optimized for binary, since that's what we use. Perhaps there would be a ternary version of heap trees? Or a totally different ternary data structure that serves the same purpose? [1]: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/446664/what-is-the-... |
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