diff --git a/content/posts/2024-06-24-union-find/index.md b/content/posts/2024-06-24-union-find/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04fcfd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2024-06-24-union-find/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +title: "Union Find" +date: 2024-06-24T21:07:49+01:00 +draft: false # I don't care for draft mode, git has branches for that +description: "My favorite data structure" +tags: + - algorithms + - data structures + - python +categories: + - programming +series: + - Lesser known algorithms and data structures +favorite: false +disable_feed: false +--- + +To kickoff the [series] of posts about criminally underrated algorithms and data +structures, I will be talking about my favorite one: the [_Disjoint Set_][wiki]. +Also known as the _Union-Find_ data structure, so named because of its two main +operations: `ds.union(lhs, rhs)` and `ds.find(elem)`. + +[wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure +[series]: {{< ref "/series/lesser-known-algorithms-and-data-structures/">}} + +