{"id":14827,"date":"2022-05-28T20:38:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T00:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=14827"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:20:44","slug":"tr-184-generating-binary-trees-at-random","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/research\/scs-technical-reports\/technical-reports-1990\/tr-184-generating-binary-trees-at-random\/","title":{"rendered":"TR-184: Generating Binary Trees at Random"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        TR-184: Generating Binary Trees at Random\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University<br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/research\/scs-technical-reports\/technical-reports-1990\/\">Technical Report<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>TR-184<\/strong><br>December 1990<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"tr-184-generating-binary-trees-at-random\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">TR-184: Generating Binary Trees at Random<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>M.D. Atkinson &amp; J\u00f6rg-R\u00fcdiger Sack<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"abstract\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We give a new constructive proof of the Chung-Feller theorem. Our proof provides a new and simple linear-time algorithm for generating random binary trees; the algorithm uses numbers no bigger than n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/TR-184.pdf\">TR-184.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton UniversityTechnical Report&nbsp;TR-184December 1990 TR-184: Generating Binary Trees at Random M.D. Atkinson &amp; J\u00f6rg-R\u00fcdiger Sack Abstract We give a new constructive proof of the Chung-Feller theorem. Our proof provides a new and simple linear-time algorithm for generating random binary trees; the algorithm uses numbers no bigger than n. TR-184.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":11906,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-14827","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24523,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14827\/revisions\/24523"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=14827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}