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tournament
Find the maximum of a set of n elements in ⌈log n⌉ "rounds" (passes) by "playing" (comparing) pairs of elements and advancing the winner (greater) of each pair to the next round. It takes n-1 comparisons, like linear search, but may be parallelized, extended to also find the second greatest element, etc.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Computer science
- Category: Algorithms & data structures
- Government Agency: NIST
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- GeorgeV
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