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More on Complete Binary Trees

Explore the detailed properties and structure of complete binary trees, including how to calculate node counts and perform level-wise insertion maintaining the tree's completeness. Understand the rules ensuring all levels except possibly the last are fully filled, and nodes are inserted from left to right for efficient tree management in C++.

Introduction

We touched upon complete binary trees in the last lesson, but here are some more detailed properties of them.

  • All the levels are completely filled except possibly the last one.
  • Nodes at the last level are as far left as possible.
  • The total number of nodes in a complete binary tree of height “h” are: 2hnodes2h+112^h \leq nodes \leq 2^{h+1}-1. This is again based on the Geometric Series formula: 20+21+23+24+...+2r=2r
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