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Binary Search Trees

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Chapter 10 on search methods postponed discussion of binary search directories which may vary dynamically. We shall now remedy that omission. To calculate the average search length of a binary search the set of possible paths through the directory was represented by a binary tree (figure 13.1).

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© 1978 Derek Coleman

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Coleman, D. (1978). Binary Search Trees. In: A Structured Programming Approach to Data. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15981-9_13

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