binary hair

[eub]

Dee had her hair gathered in two places near the forehead that stretched back and joined into a ponytail. Naturally this prompted us to generalize the hairstyle to higher n, with 2ⁿ strands near the hairline joining and rejoining into a complete binary tree with a ponytail at the root. Dee suggested red and black hairbands.

Comments

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I'm definitely on the side of the leaves-at-the-front, since the other way I think they'd all dangle together so you couldn't see the tree structure, and also I like the transgressive value of a normal vanilla ponytail at the root. But you can do one and I can do the other. Or you could be a red-black tree and I can be a splay tree, and we can engage in a celebrity deathmatch deploying our own special worst-case and amortized finishing moves.