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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions config.json
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"prerequisites": [],
"difficulty": 4
},
{
"slug": "binary-search-tree",
"name": "Binary Search Tree",
"uuid": "ce828ef4-9242-41b4-894a-92029dfdbd42",
"practices": [],
"prerequisites": [],
"difficulty": 5
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# Description

Insert and search for numbers in a binary tree.

When we need to represent sorted data, an array does not make a good data structure.

Say we have the array `[1, 3, 4, 5]`, and we add 2 to it so it becomes `[1, 3, 4, 5, 2]`.
Now we must sort the entire array again!
We can improve on this by realizing that we only need to make space for the new item `[1, nil, 3, 4, 5]`, and then adding the item in the space we added.
But this still requires us to shift many elements down by one.

Binary Search Trees, however, can operate on sorted data much more efficiently.

A binary search tree consists of a series of connected nodes.
Each node contains a piece of data (e.g. the number 3), a variable named `left`, and a variable named `right`.
The `left` and `right` variables point at `nil`, or other nodes.
Since these other nodes in turn have other nodes beneath them, we say that the left and right variables are pointing at subtrees.
All data in the left subtree is less than or equal to the current node's data, and all data in the right subtree is greater than the current node's data.

For example, if we had a node containing the data 4, and we added the data 2, our tree would look like this:

![A graph with root node 4 and a single child node 2.](https://assets.exercism.org/images/exercises/binary-search-tree/tree-4-2.svg)

```text
4
/
2
```

If we then added 6, it would look like this:

![A graph with root node 4 and two child nodes 2 and 6.](https://assets.exercism.org/images/exercises/binary-search-tree/tree-4-2-6.svg)

```text
4
/ \
2 6
```

If we then added 3, it would look like this

![A graph with root node 4, two child nodes 2 and 6, and a grandchild node 3.](https://assets.exercism.org/images/exercises/binary-search-tree/tree-4-2-6-3.svg)

```text
4
/ \
2 6
\
3
```

And if we then added 1, 5, and 7, it would look like this

![A graph with root node 4, two child nodes 2 and 6, and four grandchild nodes 1, 3, 5 and 7.](https://assets.exercism.org/images/exercises/binary-search-tree/tree-4-2-6-1-3-5-7.svg)

```text
4
/ \
/ \
2 6
/ \ / \
1 3 5 7
```

## Credit

The images were created by [habere-et-dispertire][habere-et-dispertire] using [PGF/TikZ][pgf-tikz] by Till Tantau.

[habere-et-dispertire]: https://exercism.org/profiles/habere-et-dispertire
[pgf-tikz]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGF/TikZ
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node_modules
**/*.res.js
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type rec tree =
| EmptyTree
| TreeNode({value: int, left: tree, right: tree})

let rec insert = (tree, newValue) =>
switch tree {
| EmptyTree => TreeNode({value: newValue, left: EmptyTree, right: EmptyTree})
| TreeNode(node) if newValue <= node.value =>
TreeNode({...node, left: insert(node.left, newValue)})
| TreeNode(node) => TreeNode({...node, right: insert(node.right, newValue)})
}

let binarySearchTree = values => values->Array.reduce(EmptyTree, insert)

let rec sortedData = tree =>
switch tree {
| EmptyTree => []
| TreeNode({value, left, right}) =>
Array.concat(Array.concat(sortedData(left), [value]), sortedData(right))
}
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type rec tree =
| EmptyTree
| TreeNode({value: int, left: tree, right: tree})

let binarySearchTree: array<int> => tree
let sortedData: tree => array<int>
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{
"authors": [
"BNAndras"
],
"files": {
"solution": [
"src/BinarySearchTree.res",
"src/BinarySearchTree.resi"
],
"test": [
"tests/BinarySearchTree_test.res"
],
"example": [
".meta/BinarySearchTree.res",
".meta/BinarySearchTree.resi"
]
},
"blurb": "Insert and search for numbers in a binary tree.",
"source": "Josh Cheek"
}
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