Least upper bound on the cost of optimum binary search trees

SummaryThis paper gives the least upper bound on the weighted path length of an optimum lexicographic (alphabetic) binary search tree as a function of n, given the total weight of the n terminal nodes and the n—1 internal nodes to be one.

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