Treap: A Randomized Binary Search Tree

The problem with random binary search trees is, of course, that they are not dynamic. They don’t support the add(x) or remove(x) operations needed to implement the SSet interface. In this section we describe a data structure called a Treap that uses Lemma 1 to implement the SSet interface.

Note: The data structure is called Treap because it is simultaneously a binary search tree and a heap.

The Treap overview

A node in a Treap is like a node in a BinarySearchTree in that it has a data value, x, but it also contains a unique numerical priority, p, that is assigned at random:

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