This is the archived version of this course from the Spring 2013 semester. You might find something more recent by visitning my teaching page.
(Note: you should probably start by doing Problem 35.)
What if a skip list were restricted to k levels, for some constant k? What would be the optimum way of storing n items in a skip-list of height k, and what would the resulting cost of search, insert, and delete be?
Describe the data structure construction (briefly). Give a big-O bound in terms of n and k. Then show how this relates to the usual skip list with expected height \(k = \lg n\).