Well if I had to balance a binary search tree, I would probably be stranded on a desert island with no communication with the outside world and so I’d need an improvised computer. First, after the 3 hour tour was complete, I would convince the Professor to build a computer out of coconuts. Then, I would use the Howell’s extensive supply of luxury bootstraps to get the computer to boot up so I could create a simple CPU/RAM monitor and rudimentary assembler (an operating system wouldn’t be necessary). Then, once I had used the assembler to create a representation of an unbalanced binary palm tree, all I would have left to do would be to balance it. While I was looking the other way and explaining that to Mary Ann and Ginger, Gilligan would be trying to help balance it by putting rocks on the computer, and would accidentally smash the computer in the process. Then we would all shrug, roll credits, and wait for next week to try some other way to get off the island.
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