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How It Works
This page uses a B-Tree of order 4 (minimum degree 2). Every node stores up to three keys and four children.
- Insertion splits any full child on the way down so the recursive descent never enters a full node.
- Deletion borrows from siblings when possible, otherwise merges two minimum children around a separator key.
- Search follows the separator keys until it finds the target or reaches a leaf.