Introduction to Binary Search Trees
Explore the fundamentals of binary search trees, including their structure and ordering rules, to understand how they enable efficient search, insertion, and deletion. Learn inorder traversal to retrieve sorted data and grasp why balancing is crucial for maintaining performance in tree operations.
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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