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Data structure for accessing units of measure

TL;DR - I'm looking for the "optimal" data structure to define units within a unit of measure. A Unit of measure is essentially a value (or quantity) associated with a unit. SI Units have seven ...
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5answers
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What do you call classes without methods?

What do you call classes without methods? For example, class A { public string something; public int a; } Above is a class without any methods. Does this type of class have a special name?
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1answer
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Representing domain objects

This is related to my recent question regarding naming awkward domain objects. A number of answers indicated I was using the wrong representation for the domain objects. To summarize, I chose to use ...
3
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1answer
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Is there a name for a randomized heap?

I've made a container which functions like a Binary Heap in terms of insertions and popping the root element. The key difference is that the comparison steps are all replaced with a random call for ...
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1answer
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Is there a name for this tree variant?

So I've created (and I'm sure someone else has come up with this before - I'm not claiming to have invented it) a data structure which consists of a binary search tree, only instead of each node ...
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3answers
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Collection providing lookup by one of several keys [closed]

What do you call a collection in which each item may be looked up by one of multiple keys? A partial, simplified definition in C# might be: class MyDataStructure<TKey1, TKey2, TValue> { ...