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Difference between binary tree and binary search tree

September 24, 2022 by Tarik

Binary tree: Tree where each node has up to two leaves 1 / \ 2 3 Binary search tree: Used for searching. A binary tree where the left child contains only nodes with values less than the parent node, and where the right child only contains nodes with values greater than or equal to the … Read more

What are the applications of binary trees?

September 22, 2022 by Tarik

To squabble about the performance of binary-trees is meaningless – they are not a data structure, but a family of data structures, all with different performance characteristics. While it is true that unbalanced binary trees perform much worse than self-balancing binary trees for searching, there are many binary trees (such as binary tries) for which … Read more