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question:Prove that the time complexity of the algorithm above is O(1) for enqueue and amortized O(1) for dequeue operations.
answer:To analyze the time complexity of the algorithm, we'll consider the number of operations performed in the `enqueue` and `dequeue` methods. **Enqueue operation:** The `enqueue` operation simply appends an item to the `stack1` list. This operation takes constant time, O(1), because it involves a single list operation (append) that does not depend on the size of the list. **Dequeue operation:** The `dequeue` operation has two cases: 1. If `stack2` is not empty, it simply pops an item from `stack2`, which takes constant time, O(1). 2. If `stack2` is empty, it pops all items from `stack1` and pushes them onto `stack2`, and then pops an item from `stack2`. This sequence of operations takes time proportional to the number of items in `stack1`, which is O(n). However, we need to consider the amortized time complexity, which means we average the time complexity over a sequence of operations. Let's consider a sequence of `m` `enqueue` operations followed by `m` `dequeue` operations. In the worst case, the `dequeue` operations will require popping all items from `stack1` and pushing them onto `stack2` once, which takes O(m) time. However, this cost is spread across `m` `dequeue` operations, making the amortized time complexity O(1) per `dequeue` operation. To prove this formally, let's define the potential function `φ` as the number of items in `stack1`. We can analyze the change in potential during `enqueue` and `dequeue` operations: * During `enqueue`, the potential increases by 1, because an item is added to `stack1`. * During `dequeue`, if `stack2` is not empty, the potential remains the same, because no items are transferred between stacks. If `stack2` is empty, the potential decreases by `n`, where `n` is the number of items in `stack1`, because all items are transferred from `stack1` to `stack2`. The total change in potential over a sequence of `m` `enqueue` and `m` `dequeue` operations is 0, because the number of items added to `stack1` equals the number of items removed from `stack1`. Using the potential method, we can bound the actual time complexity by the change in potential. Let `c` be the constant time taken by a single `enqueue` or `dequeue` operation (not involving the transfer of items between stacks). The total time complexity of a sequence of `m` `enqueue` and `m` `dequeue` operations is bounded by: `T(m) ≤ 2mc + ∑(φ(i) - φ(i-1))` where `φ(i)` is the potential after the `i-th` operation. Since the total change in potential is 0, the sum telescopes to 0, and we are left with: `T(m) ≤ 2mc` Dividing by `m`, we get the amortized time complexity: `T_avg = T(m)/m ≤ 2c` Since `c` is a constant, the amortized time complexity is O(1). Therefore, we have proved that the time complexity of the algorithm is O(1) for `enqueue` operations and amortized O(1) for `dequeue` operations.
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