We consider weighted path lengths to the extremal leaves in a random binary search tree. When linearly scaled, the weighted path length to the minimal label has Dickman's infinitely divisible distribution as a limit. By contrast, the weighted path length to the maximal label needs to be centered and scaled to converge to a standard normal variate in distribution. The exercise shows that path lengths associated with different ranks exhibit different behaviors depending on the rank. However, the majority of the ranks have a weighted path length with average behavior similar to that of the weighted path to the maximal node.
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