Definition:Rooted Tree/Root Node
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This page is about Root Node in the context of Rooted Tree. For other uses, see Root.
Definition
Let $T$ be a rooted tree.
The root node of $T$ is the node of $T$ which is distinguished from the others by being the ancestor node of every node of $T$.
Also known as
The root node of a rooted tree can be referred to as just the root.
Examples
Arbitrary Example
Consider the rooted tree below:
Also see
- Results about root nodes can be found here.
Sources
- 1996: H. Jerome Keisler and Joel Robbin: Mathematical Logic and Computability ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1.7$: Tableaus