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=Overview=
=Overview=
Red-black trees had been invented by Bayer (1972) and Guibas, Sedgewick (1978). They are a type of [[Binary_Search_Trees#Overview|binary search tree]] that self-balances on insertion and deletion, thus maintaining its height to a minimum, which leads to efficient operations. Almost all [[Binary_Search_Trees#Supported_Operations|binary search tree operations]] have a running time bounded by the tree height, and in this case the tree height stays constant at log n, yielding O(log n) operations.
Red-black trees had been invented by Bayer (1972) and Guibas, Sedgewick (1978). They are a type of [[Binary_Search_Trees#Overview|binary search tree]] that self-balances on insertion and deletion, thus maintaining its height to a minimum, which leads to efficient operations. Almost all [[Binary_Search_Trees#Supported_Operations|binary search tree operations]] have a running time bounded by the tree height, and in this case the tree height stays constant at log n, yielding O(log n) operations.
=Red-Black Tree Invariants=
# Each node carries "color" information ("red" or "black")
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Red-black trees had been invented by Bayer (1972) and Guibas, Sedgewick (1978). They are a type of binary search tree that self-balances on insertion and deletion, thus maintaining its height to a minimum, which leads to efficient operations. Almost all binary search tree operations have a running time bounded by the tree height, and in this case the tree height stays constant at log n, yielding O(log n) operations.

Red-Black Tree Invariants

  1. Each node carries "color" information ("red" or "black")