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# flat-tree
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[](https://drone.autonomic.zone/hyperpy/flat-tree)
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## Utilities for navigating flat trees
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```bash
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$ pip install flat-tree
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```
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Flat Trees are the core data structure that power Hypercore feeds. They
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allow us to deterministically represent a tree structure as a vector.
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This is particularly useful because vectors map elegantly to disk and
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memory.
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Because Flat Trees are deterministic and pre-computed, there is no
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overhead to using them. In effect this means that Flat Trees are a
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specific way of indexing into a vector more than they are their own data
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structure. This makes them uniquely efficient and convenient to
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implement in a wide range of languages.
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