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**Note: this module is not actively maintained bar for bug fixes. Its primary use is within NeDB and I do not plan on adding any new features.**
-Two implementations of binary search tree: basic and AVL (a kind of self-balancing binmary search tree). I wrote this module primarily to store indexes for NeDB (a javascript dependency-less database).
+Two implementations of binary search tree: basic and AVL (a kind of self-balancing binary search tree). I wrote this module primarily to store indexes for NeDB (a JavaScript dependency-less database).
## Installation and tests