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| | AVL Trees |
 | | As you move away from a balanced tree to a more linear structure, height approaches N and the maximum comparisons increases with the height of the the tree - ultimately becoming the same as searching a linked list. |
 | | An AVL tree is a binary search tree in which the heights of the left and right subtrees of the root differ by at most 1, and in which the left and right subtrees are again AVL trees. |
 | | With each node of an AVL tree is associated a balance factor which is left high, equal, or right high according, respectively, as to whether the left subtree has height greater than, equal to, or less than that of the right subtree. |
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