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Binary Heap in Data Structure
Heap or Binary Heap is a special case of balanced binary tree data structure. This is complete binary tree structure. So up to l-1 levels it is full, and at l level, all nodes are from left. Here the root-node key is compared with its children and arranged accordingly. If a has child node b then −
key(a) ≥ key(b)
As the value of parent is greater than that of child, this property generates Max Heap. Based on this criteria, a heap can be of two types the Max Heap and the Min Heap.
These are examples of Max and Min Heap respectively −
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