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Red-Black Trees were invented in 1972 by Rudolf Bayer, who originally called them "symmetric binary B-trees". The name "red-black" was later coined by Leonidas J. Guibas and Robert Sedgewick in 1978.
Red-Black Trees were created to provide a balanced binary search tree with O(log n) time complexity for search, insert, and delete operations. They are widely used in computer science, including in the Linux kernel's Completely Fair Scheduler and in many programming language standard libraries.
Red-Black Trees use color properties (red or black) and specific rules to stay balanced. This requires fewer rotations than AVL trees, making insertions and deletions faster.
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