Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures (4th Edition) (What's New in Computer Science)
Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures (4th Edition) (What's New in Computer Science)
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780134787961
Author: Tony Gaddis, Godfrey Muganda
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 21, Problem 4SA
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Priority queue:

  • Priority queue is another type of queue in which each item contains “priority” related with it.
  • The element with high priority dequeued earlier than the element with low priority.
    • If two or more elements have same priority then, they are processed according to their order.
  • The two main operations done on priority queue is “add ()” and “removeMin ()”.
    • The operation “add ()” is used to add an element to the queue.
    • The process of removing an element from the priority queue using the method “removeMin ()” will always returns the minimum element.

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