Significance of the term “Radix” in Radix Tree
问题 While it is hard to find an unanimous definition of "Radix Tree", most accepted definitions of Radix Tree indicate that it is a compacted Prefix Tree. What I'm struggling to understand is the significance of the term "radix" in this case. Why compacted prefix trees are so named (i.e. Radix Tree) and non-compacted ones are not called Radix Tree? 回答1: Wikipedia can answer this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix: In mathematical numeral systems, the radix or base is the number of unique digits