Self function

[Chris Rebert]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:25 PM,  <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Aahz:
>> When have you ever had a binary tree a thousand levels deep?
>
> Yesterday.
>
>
>>Consider how big 2**1000 is...<
>
> You are thinking just about complete binary trees.
> But consider that a topology like a single linked list (every node has
> 1 child, and they are chained) is a true binary tree still.

And who in their right mind would not use a *self-balancing* binary
tree in that situation?

Cheers,
Chris
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