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[Caml-list] Set and Map question

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From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Re: Set and Map question

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:02:44PM -0500, Brian Hurt wrote:
> The code is actually fairly easy.  Take the length of the list.  Subtract 
> one for the root node.  The first (n-1)/2 elements are in the left hand 
> subtree, the last n-1-((n-1)/2) elements are in the right subtree.

Wouldn't you have to iterate over the list when implementing this?
What I mean to say is that this would work if you had a pre-sorted
Array, but not a linked List.  ?

Rich.

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