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## Tree
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### Description
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Tree is a data structure where the data is organized in a hierarchial structure. There should be one root node (which does not have any parent) and all subsequent nodes are represented as children of the root node and its children. If a node has at least one child, it is called `internal` node and nodes with no children are called `leaf` nodes.
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### Basic Structure
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```
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class Tree<E>{
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E value;
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Tree left;
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Tree right;
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}
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```
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This basic structure is for a binary tree where each internal tree has at least one and at most two children. `left` and `right` represent the two children and `value` is the placeholder for data.
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### Properties
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1. Tree data structure gives the facility to organize data in a hierarchial structure
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2. Tree nodes can be inserted in a sorted order which can be used for searching and inserting data in O(logN) time where N is the number of nodes.
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### Types of Trees
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1. **Binary Search Tree:** A binary tree where the elements are inserted in asorted order. Here the searching can be done in O(logN) time in (depending on the structure)
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2. **AVL Tree and Red-Black Tree:** Binary search trees where the height is balanced. Here, searching is guaranteed to be in O(logN) time.
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3. **Traversal algorithms:** <br>
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a. **BFS:** Breadth-first-search where all the children at each level are traversed at once. <br>
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b. **DFS:** Depth-first-search where the first discovered child is traversed first.
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4. **MultiWay Search Tree:** Tree in sorted order, but more than two children in each internal node.
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5. **Trie:** A character based multiway search tree where words can be retrieved based on their prefix. Useful for implementing prefix based search algorithm.
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