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the time complexity of Skip List

May I know why the time complexity of insertion of skip list is O(log n) for average case, and why the height of Skip list with n elements is O(log n) in high probability. And why average search time in each layer is O(1).

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  • I can help with the O(log n) part.

    Basically... [Skip list searching] is quite reminiscent of binary search in an array and is perhaps the best way to intuitively understand why the maximum number of nodes visited in this list is in .