Good Utilization of the 4-Heap

Four children of a node

have this pattern

i

4(i-3) 4(i-3)+1 4(i-3)+2 4(i-3)+3

About log43n misses per

delete-max that percolates

down to the leaves.

log43n is approximately (log2n) / 2

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