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Deterministic skip lists

@inproceedings{Munro1992DeterministicSL,
  title={Deterministic skip lists},
  author={J. Ian Munro and Thomas Papadakis and Robert Sedgewick},
  booktitle={SODA '92},
  year={1992}
}
We explore techniques based on the notion of a skip list to guarantee logarithmic search, insert and delete costs. The basic idea is to insist that between any pair of elements above a given height are a small number of elements of precisely that height. The desired behaviour can be achieved by either using some extra space for pointers, or by adding the constraint that the physical sizes of the nodes be exponentially increasing. The first approach leads to simpler code, whereas the second is… 
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