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height-balanced tree

(data structure)

Definition: A tree whose subtrees differ in height by no more than one and the subtrees are height-balanced, too. An empty tree is height-balanced.

Generalization (I am a kind of ...)
balanced tree.

See also BB(α) tree, balanced binary tree height-balanced binary search tree.

Note: After [HS83, page 442].

Author: PEB

More information

[Knuth98, 3:459, Sect. 6.2.3]


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