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Also known as sequence, ordered list

abstract data type used in computer science

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Encyclopedic overview

In computer science, a list or sequence is a collection of items that are finite in number and in a particular order. An instance of a list is a computer representation of the mathematical concept of a tuple or finite sequence.

A list may contain the same value more than once, and each occurrence is considered a distinct item.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “list” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.