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What is the time complexity of insert, delete, and search operations in a set data structure?

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In the data structure std::set in C++ (implemented based on a red-black tree or a similar self-balancing binary search tree):

  • Insertion (insert): O(log N)
  • Deletion (erase): O(log N)
  • Search (find): O(log N)

Where N is the number of elements in the set. The logarithmic complexity is due to the fact that the height of a balanced binary tree is proportional to the logarithm of the number of nodes.