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A note on terminology

There is some confusion in the literature on the naming of the siftup/down routines presented above. The routine named siftdown here is called siftdown in [1], siftup in [3], trickledown in [4] and heapify in [5].



Jesper Bojesen
Sat Apr 3 18:07:59 METDST 1999