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Extended Binary Tree


ExtendedBinaryTree

An extended binary tree is a binary tree in which special nodes are added wherever a null subtree was present in the original tree so that each node in the original tree (except the root vertex) has vertex degree three (Knuth 1997, p. 399).


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Binary Tree

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References

Knuth, D. E. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1: Fundamental Algorithms, 3rd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Extended Binary Tree." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExtendedBinaryTree.html

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