Efficient Array Storage for Binary Tree

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Published on 2010-04-20T14:07:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 14:13 UTC
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We have to write the nodes of a binary tree to a file. What is the most space efficient way of writing a binary tree . We can store it in array format with parent in position 'i' and its childs in 2i,2i+1. But this will waste lot of space in case of sparse binary trees.

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