Errata and Clarifications


Chapter 1, page 30, Method checkBDay

Contributor(s): Michael W Goldwasser

Add opening brace to if statement.

Chapter 3, page 112, third itemized paragraph

Contributor(s): Michael Goldwasser

Replace

counter i starts at 0
with
counter i starts at 1
Note that counter i reaches value n before the loop condition kicks in.

Chapter 3, page 112, fourth itemized paragraph

Contributor(s): Mingzhou Song

Replace

A[currentMax]
with
A[i]

Chapter 4, page 138, Example 4.3, last line of the table

Contributor(s): David Weaver

Replace

pop()
with
top()

Chapter 4, page 142, Code Fragment 4.4, Javadoc comment for variable capacity

Contributor(s): Michael Goldwasser

Replace Lenght with Length

Chapter 4, page 165, Code Fragment 4.12, method dequeue

Contributor(s): Michael Goldwasser

The statement

tail = null;
should be indented further

Chapter 5, page 196, Method insertBefore

Contributor(s): Tara Whalen, Aron Klein

Remove

an error occurs if p is the first position

Chapter 5, page 196, Method insertAfter

Contributor(s): Tara Whalen, Aron Klein

Remove

an error occurs if p is the last position

Chapter 5, page 208, Code Fragment 5.12, method atRank

Contributor(s): Michael Goldwasser

Replace

O(1) time
with
O(n) time

Chapter 5, page 215, method nextPosition

Contributor(s): Ashenafi Mammo

Replace

Output: Object
with
Output: Position

Chapter 5, page 217, caption of Figure 5.10

Contributor(s): Martin Suchy

Replace

Sequence inherits from Sequence
with
Vector inherits from InspectableVector

Chapter 6, page 229, itemized paragraphs

Contributor(s): Charles Wallace

Replace

called the root of T
with
called the root of T, with no parent node
Replace
has a parent node
with
has a unique parent node

Chapter 7, page 322, seventh line of table in Example 7.8

Contributor(s): Lars Andersen

In the Output column, replace A with -. Namely, nothing should be returned by the call to method remove.

Chapter 8, page 350, third line of last paragraph

Contributor(s): Michael Goodrich

Remove the ceiling notion from the fraction n/N. That is, change

[n/N]
to
n/N
.

Chapter 8, page 356, second line of first paragraph

Contributor(s): Michael Goodrich

Remove the ceiling notion from the fraction n/N. That is, change

[n/N]
to
n/N
.

Chapter 9, page 399, second paragraph

Contributor(s): Sharat Chandran, Frederick Beaupre, Troy Vasiga, David Mount

Replace

let x be a child of y with largest height.
with
let x be the child of y defined as follows: if one of the chidren of y is taller than the other, let x be the taller child of y; else (both children of y have the same height), let x be the child of y on the same side as y (that is, if y is a left child, let x be the left child of y, else let x be the right child of y).
Remove the sentence
The choice of x may not be unique, since the subtrees of y may have the same height.

Chapter 10, page 455, first two lines of first paragraph

Contributor(s): Raffi N. Mazmanian

Replace

S1 and S1
with
S1 and S2

Chapter 11, page 501, third line of second paragraph

Contributor(s): Helmar Burkhart

Replace

Thus, in the worst case, ..., time
with
Note that, when m = n/2, this algorithm has quadratic running time O(n2)

Chapter 12, page 596, first line of last paragraph

Contributor(s): Mingzhou Song

Replace

description the algorithms
with
description of the algorithms