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Deletion

Explore the process of deleting nodes in a binary search tree by understanding the three cases: leaf nodes, nodes with one child, and nodes with two children. Learn how to maintain BST properties during deletion and manage time complexity for efficient programming.

Deletion

While removing a node from a BST, three cases are possible:

  1. Node is a leaf
  2. Node has only one child
  3. Node has two children

In any case, we could end up traversing the entire tree in case of a skewed binary tree. So, the time complexity is O(N ...