Almost-perfectly balanced binary search trees

Revision en2, by ilyaraz, 2015-09-30 09:50:13

Hi all,

I'm about to teach AVL trees for a section of 6.006, and while thinking it through, I came up with the following question, which, I strongly suspect, should be well-understood.

Say one wants to maintain a binary search tree with height , where n is the total number of nodes, under insertions. How quickly can one insert? Is time per insert possible?

For instance, AVL trees give you height around and red-black trees — .

What do you think?

Tags avl trees, binary search tree, data structures, algorithms

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