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perfect k-ary tree

(definition)

Definition: A k-ary tree with all leaf nodes at same depth. All internal nodes have degree k.

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

See also perfect binary tree.

Note: Called "complete" by [CLR90, page 95].

Author: PEB


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Paul E. Black, "perfect k-ary tree", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 20 April 2011. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/perfectKaryTree.html