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4.1 Introduction

Trees are very useful and important abstractions in Computer Science. They are ideally suited to representing hierarchical relationships among elements in a universe. Efficient implementations of abstract data types such as dictionaries and priority queues are invariably in terms of binary or general trees.


 

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