leaf node

in computer science
a leaf node is a node
of a tree data structure
that has zero child nodes

often leaf nodes are the nodes
farthest from the root node

comment
yeah, it's a literal copy of someone else's writing... my point is that there is a different way to think about it. i'm just providing a picture frame for an objet trouve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_node
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TreeLeaf.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_art
http://www.iceandcoal.org/nfa/imperative.html

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