Heap Data Structure
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A Heap is a special Tree-based data structure in which the tree is a complete binary tree. Generally, Heaps can be of two types:
- Max-Heap: In a Max-Heap the key present at the root node must be greatest among the keys present at all of it’s children. The same property must be recursively true for all sub-trees in that Binary Tree.
- Min-Heap: In a Min-Heap the key present at the root node must be minimum among the keys present at all of it’s children. The same property must be recursively true for all sub-trees in that Binary Tree.

Popular Articles on Heap :
- Binary Heap
- Time Complexity of building a heap
- Applications of Heap Data Structure
- Binomial Heap
- Fibonacci Heap
- Leftist Heap
- K-ary Heap
- Heap Sort
- Iterative Heap Sort
- K’th Largest Element in an array
- K’th Smallest/Largest Element in Unsorted Array | Set 1
- Sort an almost sorted array/
- Tournament Tree (Winner Tree) and Binary Heap
- Check if a given Binary Tree is Heap
- How to check if a given array represents a Binary Heap?
- Connect n ropes with minimum cost
- Design an efficient data structure for given operations
- Merge k sorted arrays | Set 1
- Merge Sort Tree for Range Order Statistics
- Sort numbers stored on different machines
- Smallest Derangement of Sequence
- Largest Derangement of a Sequence
- K maximum sum combinations from two arrays
- Maximum distinct elements after removing k elements
- Maximum difference between two subsets of m elements
- Height of a complete binary tree (or Heap) with N nodes
- Heap Sort for decreasing order using min heap
- Print all nodes less than a value x in a Min Heap.
- Median of Stream of Running Integers using STL
- Largest triplet product in a stream
- Find k numbers with most occurrences in the given array
- Convert BST to Min Heap
- Merge two binary Max Heaps
- K-th Largest Sum Contiguous Subarray
- Minimum product of k integers in an array of positive Integers
- Leaf starting point in a Binary Heap data structure
- Why is Binary Heap Preferred over BST for Priority Queue?
- Convert min Heap to max Heap
- Given level order traversal of a Binary Tree, check if the Tree is a Min-Heap
- Rearrange characters in a string such that no two adjacent are same
- Implementation of Binomial Heap
- Array Representation Of Binary Heap
- Sum of all elements between k1’th and k2’th smallest elements
- Minimum sum of two numbers formed from digits of an array
- K’th largest element in a stream
- k largest(or smallest) elements in an array | added Min Heap method
- Median in a stream of integers (running integers)
- Sort a nearly sorted (or K sorted) array
Misc :
- Why is Binary Heap Preferred over BST for Priority Queue?
- Heap in C++ STL | make_heap(), push_heap(), pop_heap(), sort_heap(), is_heap, is_heap_until()
- Heap in Python (Using Heapq module)
- Where is Heap Sort used practically?
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