Examples of spaghetti

• Put a little cinnamon in your spaghetti sauce. 

• The Japanese love a meal called ramen noodles – a kind of pasta, like spaghetti. 

• For example, children would be told to substitute we with the word spaghetti.

• This, roughly speaking, shaves off the spaghettis, as the weighted profile of digital search trees is identical to that of the core.

• In such a case, the contribution of the spaghettis is 1/b times that of the core.

• They graphically term this a 'spaghetti effect', and 'utterly unrevealing' (p.272), yet this is not wholly the case.

• It is interesting to note that for this case, one can obtain tight bounds on the height without distinguishing the core from the spaghettis.

• The spaghettis are the trees remaining after removing the core from the trie.