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Compact balanced tries


Author(s) : Pierre Nicod Eme, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1992
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : Classical B trees offer both fast direct addressing and easy sequential processing. The minimum storage utilization of a B-tree is 50%. Moreover it is always possible to shrink a B tree to a minimum size as follows: scan the leaves in key increasing order; when reaching a leaf, transfer,