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Data Structures: Binary Tree

Binary trees are characterized by nodes having at most two child nodes. A binary tree is recursively defined as a finite set of nodes that is either empty or consists of a root node and two disjoint binary trees called the left and right subtrees. Binary trees can be represented using arrays or links. Complete binary trees have optimal height to node ratio of O(log N).

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Data Structures: Binary Tree

Binary trees are characterized by nodes having at most two child nodes. A binary tree is recursively defined as a finite set of nodes that is either empty or consists of a root node and two disjoint binary trees called the left and right subtrees. Binary trees can be represented using arrays or links. Complete binary trees have optimal height to node ratio of O(log N).

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Data structures

Binary Tree

Binary
Trees
A structure containing nodes with more than one self-referenced
field. A binary tree is made of nodes, where each node contains
a "left" reference, a "right" reference, and a data element. The
topmost node in the tree is called the root.
Any node can have at most two branches, i.e.,there is no node
with degree greater than two. For binary trees we distinguish
between the subtree on the left and on the right, whereas for
trees the order of the subtree was irrelevant. Also a binary tree
may have zero nodes.
Definition: A binary tree is a finite set of nodes which is either
empty or consists of a root and two disjoint binary trees called
the left subtree and the right subtree.

Every
nodeTrees
(excluding a root) in a tree is connected by a
Binary
directed
edge from exactly one other node. This node is called a
parent. On
the other hand, each node can be connected to arbitrary
number
of nodes, called children.
leaves or external nodes
Nodes with no children are called leaves, or external nodes.
Nodes which are not leaves are called internal nodes.
Siblings
Nodes with the same parent are called siblings.

The depth of a node is the number of edges from the root to


the
node.
The height of a node is the number of edges from the node
to the deepest leaf.
The height of a tree is a height of the root.
A full binary tree is a binary tree in which each node has
exactly zero or two children.
A complete binary tree is a binary tree, which is completely
filled, with the possible exception of the bottom level, which

Binary Trees
Binary trees are characterized by the fact that
any node can have at most two branches
Definition (recursive):
A binary tree is a finite set of nodes that is either
empty or consists of a root and two disjoint binary
trees called the left subtree and the right subtree

Thus the left subtree and the right subtree are


distinguished
A

B
B
Any tree can be transformed into
binary tree

by left child-right sibling representation

Binary Trees
The abstract data type of binary tree

Binary Trees
Two special kinds of binary trees:
(a) skewed tree, (b) complete binary tree
The all leaf nodes of these trees are on two adjacent levels

Binary Trees (4/9)

Properties of binary trees


Lemma 5.1 [Maximum number of nodes]:
1. The maximum number of nodes on level i of a
binary tree is 2i-1, i 1.
2. The maximum number of nodes in a binary
tree of depth k is 2k-1, k1.
Lemma 5.2 [Relation between number of
leaf nodes and degree-2 nodes]:
For any nonempty binary tree, T, if n0 is the
number of leaf nodes and n2 is the number of
nodes of degree 2, then n0 = n2 + 1.

These lemmas allow us to define full and


complete binary trees

Binary Trees (5/9)


Definition:
A full binary tree of depth k is a binary tree of
death k having 2k-1 nodes, k 0.
A binary tree with n nodes and depth k is complete
iff its nodes correspond to the nodes numbered
from 1 to n in the full binary tree of depth k.
From Lemma 5.1, the
height of a complete
binary tree with n nodes
is log2(n+1)

Binary Trees

Binary tree representations (using array)

Lemma 5.3: If a complete binary tree with n


nodes is represented sequentially, then for
any node with index i, 1 i n, we have
1. parent(i) is at i /2 if i 1.
If i = 1, i is at the root and has no parent.
2. LeftChild(i) is at 2i if 2i n.
If 2i n, then i has no left child.
A 1
3. RightChild(i) is at 2i+1 if 2i+1 n.
If 2i +1 n, then i has no left child
B 2
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
C 3
A

Level 1
Level 2

D
Level 3

E
6

Binary Trees
Binary tree representations (using array)
Waste spaces: in the worst case, a skewed tree of
depth k requires 2k-1 spaces. Of these, only k
spaces will be occupied
Insertion or deletion
of nodes from the
middle of a tree
requires the
movement of
potentially many nodes
to reflect the change in
the level of these nodes

Binary Trees
Binary tree representations (using link)

Binary Trees
Binary tree representations (using link)

A complete binary tree is very special tree, it provides the


best possible ratio between the number of nodes and the
height.
The height h of a complete binary tree with N nodes is at
most O(log N). We can easily prove this by counting nodes on
each level, starting with the root, assuming that each level
= 1 maximum
+ 2 + 4 + ...
+ 2h-1 +of
2hnodes.
= 2h+1 - 1
hasn the
number
Solving this with respect to h, we obtain

h = O(log n)

Algorithm
structure BTREE
declare CREATE( ) --> btree
ISMTBT(btree,item,btree) --> boolean
MAKEBT(btree,item,btree) --> btree
LCHILD(btree) --> btree
DATA(btree) --> item
RCHILD(btree) --> btree
for all p,r in btree, d in item let
ISMTBT(CREATE)::=true
ISMTBT(MAKEBT(p,d,r))::=false
LCHILD(MAKEBT(p,d,r))::=p; LCHILD(CREATE)::=error
DATA(MAKEBT(p,d,r))::d; DATA(CREATE)::=error
RCHILD(MAKEBT(p,d,r))::=r; RCHILD(CREATE)::=error
end
end BTREE

Advantages of trees
Trees are so useful and frequently used, because
they have some very serious advantages:
Trees reflect structural relationships in the data.
Trees are used to represent hierarchies.
Trees provide an efficient insertion and searching.
Trees are very flexible data, allowing to move
subtrees around with minimum effort .

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