Binary tree is one of the most important data structures in the programming world. The basic definition can be given as follows (as mentioned in one of the data structures book by Tenenbaum). "A ...

Both a sorted array and a binary tree can let you look up an element in log(N) time. However I would expect a sorted array to be faster in practice because of the constant factor. However ...

This question was answered in the negative by Ostrovskii (2014), who left it open to determine the order of growth of the distortions. The main purpose of this paper is to get a sharp ...