Leaf of a rooted tree

ID: leaf-of-a-rooted-tree

A node with no children in a rooted tree. This depends on the chosen root: the root of a nontrivial tree can have undirected vertex degree one while still having a child and therefore not being a leaf in the rooted sense. In a single-node rooted tree, the root is a leaf. The distinction matters when counting the complement of the internal vertices of a rooted tree.

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