Definitions For Rooted Trees
- A directed edge refers to the link from the parent to the child (the arrows in the picture of the tree).
- The root node of a tree is the node with no parents. There is at most one root node in a rooted tree.
- A leaf node has no children.
- The depth of a node n is the length of the path from the root to the node. The set of all nodes at a given depth is sometimes called a level of the tree. The root node is at depth zero.
- The depth (or height) of a tree is the length of the path from the root to the deepest node in the tree. A (rooted) tree with only one node (the root) has a depth of zero.
- Siblings are nodes that share the same parent node.
- A node p is an ancestor of a node q if it exists on the path from the root to node q. The node q is then termed as a descendant of p.
- The size of a node is the number of descendants it has including itself.
- In-degree of a node is the number of edges arriving at that node.
- Out-degree of a node is the number of edges leaving that node.
- The root is the only node in the tree with In-degree = 0.
- All the leaf nodes have Out-degree = 0.
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