An AVL Tree (Adelson-Velsky and Landis tree) is a self balancing binary search tree such that for every internal node of the tree the heights of the children of node can differ by at most 1. If the difference in the height of left and right sub-trees is more than 1, the tree is balanced using rotation techniques



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