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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A radix tree with radix of 2, meaning that each bit of the key is compared individually and each node is a two-way branch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, computing-theory, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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History
Coined by Donald R. Morrison in 1968, as an acronym of practical algorithm to retrieve information coded in alphanumeric, designed to spell out the name Patricia.
