Exercise 2.72

Read Exercise 2.72 ~ Solution


The growth of encode is t * d where t is the number of tokens at particular tree level and
d is the height / depth of the tree.

For a tree of n tokens
1 <= t <= n and so the growth of searching for a token t is O(n)
(balanced) log2n <= d <= n-1 (unbalanced) which is growth O(n)

The overall is encode is O(n2)

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