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More on Complete Binary Trees

Explore the detailed properties of complete binary trees, including node distribution and height relations. Learn insertion techniques to maintain tree completeness, crucial for coding interviews and efficient JavaScript implementations.

Introduction

We touched upon complete binary trees in the last lesson, but here are some of their more detailed properties.

  • All the levels are completely filled except possibly the last one
  • Nodes at the last level are as far left as possible
  • The total number of nodes in a complete binary tree of height “h” are: 2hnodes2h+112^h \leq nodes \leq 2^{h+1}-1. This is again based on the Geometric Series formula: 20+21+23+24+...+2r=2
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