cengland0 (10/9/2009)[hr
The creator of that term worked for Boeing when it was created so it could stand for Boeing.
The creator's last name is Bayer so it could stand for Bayer.
The B-tree is a generalization of a binary search tree in that more than two paths diverge from a single node so the "B" could stand for binary.
Surely the "learning point" of the question is that B-trees are not binary trees ( they may turn out to be binary trees in some special cases depending on the data that is inserted into them but as soon as any node has more than 2 child nodes, they are not binary.)
If "Boeing" or "Bayer" had been offered as a possible answer, there *might* be some kind of argument for those - but they weren't. Virtually everyone who chose the wrong answer chose "binary" - and have now had the opportunity to learn something they didn't know before.
I probably get as many questions here wrong as I get right. But I learn much more from the ones that I get wrong.