Introduction to Binary Search Trees
Explore the concept of binary search trees and understand how they maintain ordered data with each node. Learn inorder traversal to retrieve sorted values and why BST balance is crucial for fast search and update operations. This lesson helps you distinguish BSTs from regular binary trees and grasp their importance for efficient data management.
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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