van Emde Boas tree

English

Etymology

Named after Peter van Emde Boas.

Noun

van Emde Boas tree (plural van Emde Boas trees)

1. (computer science) A tree data structure that implements an associative array with keys of up to m bits. It can perform all operations in a time proportional to the log of the size of its largest element, or equivalently with an upper bound equal to the logarithm of 2 multiplied by m.