data structure

particular way of storing and organizing data in a computer
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data structure

Summary

data structure ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (738 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • data structure's GND ID is recorded as 4011146-5[2].
  • data structure's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85035862[3].
  • data structure's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119313298[4].
  • data structure's subclass of is recorded as data[5].
  • data structure's subclass of is recorded as structure[6].
  • data structure's subclass of is recorded as software component[7].
  • data structure's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 01167757[8].
  • data structure's part of is recorded as computer science[9].
  • data structure's part of is recorded as mathematical structure[10].
  • data structure's part of is recorded as data format[11].
  • data structure's Commons category is recorded as Data structures[12].
  • data structure's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 63819[13].
  • data structure's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02cjl[14].
  • data structure's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph119336[15].
  • data structure's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Data structures[16].
  • data structure's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 005.73[17].
  • data structure's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1098758[18].
  • data structure's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0250947[19].
  • data structure's described by source is recorded as The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms, 3rd edition[20].
  • data structure's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/data-structure[21].
  • data structure's topic has template is recorded as Template:Data structures[22].
  • data structure's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox data structure[23].
  • data structure's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/data-structures[24].
  • data structure's manifestation of is recorded as abstract data type[25].
  • data structure's different from is recorded as data type[26].

Why It Matters

data structure ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (738 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

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  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Described by source The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms, 3rd edition
    Maintained by wikiproject WikiProject Computer Science
    Entityschema for this class {'id': 'E177', 'entity-type': 'entity-schema'}
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