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Array structures are the most common form of data structure and are familiar to most programmers. Arrays in programming languages originated from the mathematical concept. In mathematics a set of related variables a1, a2, …, an is referred to as the vector a, in programming such a structure is known as an array and would be declared in Algol as array a [1: n].
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© 1978 Derek Coleman
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Coleman, D. (1978). Arrays. In: A Structured Programming Approach to Data. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15981-9_3
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