Introduction to Binary Search Trees
Explore binary search trees to understand their hierarchical and ordered nature. Learn how BSTs enable efficient search, insertion, and deletion. Discover inorder traversal for sorted data output and why maintaining tree balance is crucial for performance.
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A binary tree is a data structure where each node has at most two children: a left child and a right child.
A binary search tree (BST) is a special type of binary tree that maintains an ordering rule:
All values in the left subtree are smaller than the node.
All values in the right subtree are greater than or equal to the node.
This rule applies recursively to every node.
For example, if the root is