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18. Check Balanced Binary Tree ⭐

Verifies that for every node, the height difference between its left and right subtrees is at most 1.

Time O(n) Space O(h)
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Reference implementation (Python)

def is_balanced(root):
    def check(node):
        if not node: return 0
        left = check(node.left)
        if left == -1: return -1
        right = check(node.right)
        if right == -1: return -1
        if abs(left - right) > 1: return -1
        return 1 + max(left, right)
    return check(root) != -1

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