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Exercise: Skiplists

Explore how to modify the find method in Skiplists to eliminate redundant value comparisons. This lesson guides you through implementing an efficient search strategy that reduces unnecessary operations, enhancing Skiplist performance and deepening your understanding of advanced data structures in Java.

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Task

The find(x) method in a Skiplist sometimes performs redundant comparisons; these occur when x is compared to the same value more than once. They can occur when, for some node, u, u.next[r] = ...