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digital search tree

(data structure)

Definition: A trie which stores the strings in internal nodes, so there is no need for extra leaf nodes to store the strings.

See also digital tree, directed acyclic word graph, compact DAWG, Patricia tree, suffix tree.

Author: PEB


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Paul E. Black, "digital search tree", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: https://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/digitalSearchTree.html