What is Ternary Tree

Last Updated : 26 Sep, 2023

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What is a Ternary Tree?

A Ternary Tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most three child nodes, usually distinguished as “left”, “mid” and “right”.

For example: Consider the tree below. Since each node of this tree has only 3 children, it can be said that this tree is a Ternary Tree.

Ternary Tree

Ternary Tree

Some interesting problems on Ternary Tree:

  1. Create a Doubly Linked List from a Ternary Tree
  2. Ternary Search Tree
  3. Ternary Search Tree (Deletion)
  4. Longest word in ternary search tree
  5. How to implement text Auto-complete feature using Ternary Search Tree

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