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| It is not a coincidence. I remember having read somewhere that it
| could be proven that if a balanced tree (based on comparisons) did not
| have enough different representations of a same set, then the
| insertion could not be done in logarithmic time.

Interesting. I was beginning to suspect that might be the case. Does
anyone have an exact reference for such a result?

John.

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