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balanced tree (Data Structure)

A balanced tree is a rooted tree where no leaf is much farther away from the root than any other leaf. Different balancing schemes allow different definitions of "much farther" and different amounts of work to keep them balanced. For an example, see binary tree.




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See Also: tree, balanced binary tree, heap, binary tree

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Cross-references: binary tree, balanced, definitions, root, leaf, rooted tree
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AMS MSC05C05 (Combinatorics :: Graph theory :: Trees)

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