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- From: raghavav@deneb.cs.rpi.edu (Vijay Raghavan)
- Subject: Re: Any example of actual implementations of B-Tree's?
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- References: <1992Jul30.175243.9569@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <chaw.712522251@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:25:42 GMT
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- In article <chaw.712522251@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> chaw@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (S. S. Chawathe) writes:
- >al045@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gergely Tapolyai) writes:
- >>B in B-Tree _is_ for Binary. B-Tree, B+ tree, Bit-Tree and their
- >
- >That's strange, considering that a B-Tree is not binary at all!
- >I remember hearing strange tales about the B standing for the
- >name of one of the inventors, who was working at Boeing....etc.
- >:-)
- >
- >-Chaw
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- B-tree is BALANCED tree not binary tree. Of course you have Balanced trees
- which are binary called AVL trees.
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- vijay
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