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An intro to Python & programming for wanna-be data scientists
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Introduce the term contiguous array in chapter 07 (lists) #13

Open webartifex opened 4 years ago

webartifex commented 4 years ago

Explain what a contiguous array is and that list (slots) and dict (buckets) and other use it behind the scenes.

Explain offsetting: "It does not have to follow a reference to some "random" memory location once it has followed the reference to the dict object's "start" in memory."