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# Binary Search Tree
In computer science, binary search trees (BST), sometimes called
ordered or sorted binary trees, are a particular type of container:
data structures that store "items" (such as numbers, names etc.)
in memory. They allow fast lookup, addition and removal of
items, and can be used to implement either dynamic sets of
items, or lookup tables that allow finding an item by its key
(e.g., finding the phone number of a person by name).
Binary search trees keep their keys in sorted order, so that lookup
and other operations can use the principle of binary search:
when looking for a key in a tree (or a place to insert a new key),
they traverse the tree from root to leaf, making comparisons to
keys stored in the nodes of the tree and deciding, on the basis
of the comparison, to continue searching in the left or right
subtrees. On average, this means that each comparison allows
the operations to skip about half of the tree, so that each
lookup, insertion or deletion takes time proportional to the
logarithm of the number of items stored in the tree. This is
much better than the linear time required to find items by key
in an (unsorted) array, but slower than the corresponding
operations on hash tables.
A binary search tree of size 9 and depth 3, with 8 at the root.
The leaves are not drawn.
![Binary Search Tree](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Binary_search_tree.svg)
## References
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_tree)