A Merkle tree's size depends on the amount of data being hashed for inclusion and how the blockchain is programmed. However, a block's Merkle tree does not occupy a large amount of storage on a ...

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge.

Charles C. Davis, William R. Anderson, A complete generic phylogeny of Malpighiaceae inferred from nucleotide sequence data and morphology, American Journal of Botany, Vol. 97, No. 12 (December 2010), ...