binary search tree

data structure in tree form with 0, 1, or 2 children per node, sorted for fast lookup
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binary search tree

Summary

binary search tree is a data structure[1]. It draws 452 Wikipedia views per month (data_structure category, ranking #6 of 40).[2]

Key Facts

  • binary search tree is credited with the discovery of Andrew Donald Booth[3].
  • binary search tree's image is recorded as Binary search tree.svg[4].
  • binary search tree's instance of is recorded as data structure[5].
  • binary search tree's subclass of is recorded as search tree[6].
  • binary search tree's subclass of is recorded as binary tree[7].
  • binary search tree's Commons category is recorded as Binary search trees[8].
  • +1960-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of binary search tree[9].
  • binary search tree's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1960-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • binary search tree's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01d0s[11].
  • binary search tree's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Binary search trees[12].
  • binary search tree's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/binary-search-tree[13].
  • binary search tree's studied by is recorded as algorithmics[14].
  • binary search tree's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/121pk3xb[15].
  • binary search tree's Quora topic ID is recorded as Binary-Search-Tree[16].
  • binary search tree's worst-case space complexity is recorded as O(n)[17].
  • binary search tree's average space complexity is recorded as O( log_2 (n) )[18].
  • binary search tree's Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID is recorded as binarySearchTree[19].
  • binary search tree's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 91154448[20].
  • binary search tree's Brilliant Wiki ID is recorded as binary-search-trees[21].
  • binary search tree's PlanetMath ID is recorded as BinarySearchTree[22].
  • binary search tree's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C91154448[23].

Why It Matters

binary search tree draws 452 Wikipedia views per month (data_structure category, ranking #6 of 40).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. Retrieved . xlinux.nist.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. Retrieved . xlinux.nist.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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