In a randomly grown binary search tree BST of size n, any fixed pattern occurs with a frequency that is on average proportional to n. Deviations from the average case are highly unlikely and well quantified by a Gaussian law. Trees with forbidden patterns occur with an exponentially small probabilit
On binary search trees
β Scribed by Roberto De Prisco; Alfredo De Santis
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 378 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-0190
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