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Binary Tree

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In computer science, a binary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most two children, referred to as the left child and the right child, making it a k-ary tree with k equal to two. It can also be defined recursively and formally as a triple of a left subtree, a root node, and a right subtree, where each subtree is itself a binary tree or the empty set. Binary trees underlie many fundamental algorithms and data structures, including binary search trees and heaps. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Entity-backed identity for the object-kind enum value this mathematical object already carries, resolved to a mathematics concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The object-kind fact itself stays on the object unchanged.

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1. Binary Tree (Wikipedia)
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