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In computer science, a tree is a widely used abstract data type (ADT) — or data structure implementing this ADT—that simulates a hierarchical tree structure, with a root value and subtrees of children with a parent node, represented as a set of linked nodes.

A tree data structure can be defined recursively (locally) as a collection of nodes (starting at a root node), where each node is a data structure consisting of a value, together with a list of references to nodes (the "children"), with the constraints that no reference is duplicated, and none points to the root.

A simple unordered tree; in this diagram, the node labeled 3 has two children, labeled 2 and 6, and one parent, labeled 2. The root node, at the top, has no parent.

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