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Method of analyzing the amortized complexity of a data structure

In computational complexity theory, the potential method is a method used to analyze the amortized time and space complexity of a data structure, a measure of its performance over sequences of operations that smooths out the cost of infrequent but expensive operations. Wikipedia →

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