extract-max operation
The "extract-max operation" refers to a fundamental operation performed on a data structure called a max heap. It retrieves and removes the element with the highest value from the max heap, ensuring that the heap property is maintained. This operation has a time complexity of O(log n), where n is the number of elements in the max heap.
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