An array is a very simple and extremely useful data structure. A large number of applications based on
stacks and queues can be easily implemented with the help of arrays. Lists and tables have natural simi-
larity with one- and two-dimensional arrays. Though the allocation of space is sequential in an array, the
access to its elements is random. For a given index the element can be accessed in a time, independent
of its location in the array.
However, there are many problems associated with this data structure. Some of the important
problems are as follows:
(1) An array is a static data structure and, therefore, its size sho ...
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