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balance

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The (weight) balance $\rho(T)$ of a tree is the number of leaves of the left subtree of a tree, denoted $\vert T_l\vert$ , divided by the total number of leaves of the tree. That is, $\rho (T) = \frac{\vert T_l\vert}{\vert T\vert}$ .

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This is version 1 of balance, born on 2007-07-04.
Object id is 9734, canonical name is Balance.
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AMS MSC:	68P05 (Computer science :: Theory of data :: Data structures)
	68P10 (Computer science :: Theory of data :: Searching and sorting)

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