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Linked list. A linked list is a sequence of nodes that contain two fields: data (an integer value here as an example) and a link to the next node. The last node is linked to a terminator used to signify the end of the list. In computer science, a linked list is a linear collection of data elements whose order is not given by their physical ...
List (abstract data type) In computer science, a list or sequence is an abstract data type that represents a finite number of ordered values, where the same value may occur more than once. An instance of a list is a computer representation of the mathematical concept of a tuple or finite sequence; the (potentially) infinite analog of a list is ...
Doubly linked list. In computer science, a doubly linked list is a linked data structure that consists of a set of sequentially linked records called nodes. Each node contains three fields: two link fields ( references to the previous and to the next node in the sequence of nodes) and one data field. The beginning and ending nodes' previous and ...
Adjacency list. This undirected cyclic graph can be described by the three unordered lists {b, c }, {a, c }, {a, b }. In graph theory and computer science, an adjacency list is a collection of unordered lists used to represent a finite graph. Each unordered list within an adjacency list describes the set of neighbors of a particular vertex in ...
Linked lists. A linked list is a collection of structures ordered not by their physical placement in memory but by logical links that are stored as part of the data in the structure itself. It is not necessary that it should be stored in the adjacent memory locations. Every structure has a data field and an address field.
The list starts out with a single node, the sentinel node which has the next and previous pointers point to itself. This condition determines if the list is empty. In a non-empty list, the sentinel node's next pointer gives the head of the list, and the previous pointer gives the tail of the list. Following is a Python implementation of a ...
Cell lists. Cell lists (also sometimes referred to as cell linked-lists) is a data structure in molecular dynamics simulations to find all atom pairs within a given cut-off distance of each other. These pairs are needed to compute the short-range non-bonded interactions in a system, such as Van der Waals forces or the short-range part of the ...
Linked list. A doubly linked list has O(1) insertion and deletion at both ends, so it is a natural choice for queues. A regular singly linked list only has efficient insertion and deletion at one end. However, a small modification—keeping a pointer to the last node in addition to the first one—will enable it to implement an efficient queue.