What Makes a Tree Balanced?

Learn what makes a tree balanced, and analyze a high-level description of the algorithm that determines if a tree is balanced.

Introduction

A binary tree is height-balanced if, for each node in the tree, the difference between the height of the right-subtree and the left-subtree is at most one.

Height(LeftSubTree)Height(RightSubTree)<=1|Height(LeftSubTree) - Height(RightSubTree) |<= 1

Look at the illustration below of a height-balanced tree. Notice how the left and right subtrees all appear at the same height.

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