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What Makes a Tree 'balanced'?

Explore the concept of height-balanced binary trees and learn how to determine if a tree meets the balance condition where the height difference between left and right subtrees is at most one. Understand this fundamental idea through step-by-step algorithms and examples, helping you prepare for coding interviews involving tree data structures in C++.

Introduction

A binary tree is height-balanced if, for each node in the tree, the difference between the height of the right subtree and the left subtree is at most one.

Height(LeftSubTree)Height(RightSubTree)<=1|Height(LeftSubTree) - Height(RightSubTree) |<= 1 ...