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extended binary tree

(data structure)

Definition: A binary tree with special nodes replacing every null subtree. Every regular node has two children, and every special node has no children.

Note: After [Knuth97, 1:399, Sect. 2.3.4.5].

Author: PEB


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Paul E. Black, "extended binary tree", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 20 November 2008. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/extendedBinaryTree.html