What is an AVL Tree?

This lesson has a brief introduction to AVL trees, why they are used, and what makes them more efficient than regular binary search trees.

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Introduction

In 1962, AVL was named after the inventors, Adelson-Velsky and Landi. They claimed that AVL trees are: “An algorithm for the organization of information." They are binary search trees such that for every internal node ...