(data structure)
Definition:
A variant of doubly linked list with items in sorted order and having two levels of additional links that span geometrically increasing distances. For a list with n items, the next level is a link from item i, 1 ≤ i ≤ n - 
n 1/3
, to item i + i 1/3. At the top level, items 1³, 2³, 3³, ..., n 1/3 ³ have backward links, that is, there is a link from item i³, 1 < i ≤ n 1/3 ³, to item (i-1)³. Search, insert, and delete are O(n1/3) worst case.
See also skip list, dictionary.
Note: The data structure can also be seen as a binary search tree with additional links.
Author: PEB
Arne Andersson and Thomas Ottmann, New Tight Bounds on Uniquely Represented Dictionaries, SIAM Journal of Computing, 24(5):1091-1103, 1995.
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