because comes from retrieval it's a data structure for easy retrieval of certain information so that's also why it's often pronounced binary trees because it comes from retrieval at the same time there's also threes this way that also our data structure and so it can be a little confusing if they're pronounced the same way so some people will still pronounce this as trust to distinguish from trees so that's a binary tree the way we're going to use it is that the symbols will always live in the leaves and a code word is a path from root leaf