I just stood in a heap of dog poo
You may not park that old heap in my driveway.
Many people have a compost heap and use it to help things grow in their gardens.
"The clothes were piled in a heap on the floor." "The heap of coal shifted dangerously before finally falling over." (Colloquially, the word heap is sometimes used improperly to indicate a large volume or number : "In the sink there were a heap of dishes to be done." )
Completely devoid of fuel, she collapsed in a shivering heap and was unable to mine any more diamonds.
(Amass - to heap together, pile up)"By working hard and spending little, he managed to amass a fortune."
Heap is a data-structure, it cannot implement anything. On the other hand, it is true that: 1. Recursive routines might use heap. 2. You can use dynamic memory allocation (heap), to implement a stack; and use the stack to implement recursion.
Please dump your wheelbarrow's spoils on the dung heap.
yes. in functional languages, activation record should be stored in heap instead of stack
The difference between Binomial heap and binary heap is Binary heap is a single heap with max heap or min heap property and Binomial heap is a collection of binary heap structures(also called forest of trees).
School gardens and science experiments are ways in which a school can use a compost heap. A compost heap functions as a repository for kitchen scraps and yard debris. It may lend itself therefore to community gardens and science class experiments.
You should know classes & pointers before heaps. My idea of a heap is a bit like this: You have a class or struct(i.g. Heap_t) with a pointer to another of itself, and some data. Example: class Heap_t{ public: Heap_t(){ Pointer=NULL; } Heap_t * point; int data; }; int main(){ //Variable Heap_t * heap;//This will hold a pointer to the root of the heap Heap_t tmp; //Temporary storage for a piece of the heap before it is added Heap_t * cur; //Temporary storage for the current piece of the heap //Setup the heap tmp.data=0;//Make data something meaningful cur=(Heap_t *) tmp;//Make the root of the heap heap=cur;//Backup the root of the heap //Make the heap big for(int i=1;i<10;i++){ tmp.data=i;//Make the data something meaningfull (*cur).next=(Heap_t *) tmp; //Add tmp to the heap } //Do stuff //Exit return(0); } You could also use a reference or use it without a pointer or a reference. This is a bit more like a linked list, but it is an example.
You can specify the starting and maximum heap sizes when you launch a Java program by using the command line switches: -Xms<size> set initial Java heap size -Xmx<size> set maximum Java heap size Example: The following line will run the MyProgram Java program with 64-128mb heap space. java -Xms64m -Xmx128m MyProgram