<center><p><math>datum_1, datum_2, datum_3, \ldots,\!</math> and so on.</p></center>
<center><p><math>datum_1, datum_2, datum_3, \ldots,\!</math> and so on.</p></center>
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What makes it possible to represent graph-theoretical structures as data structures in computer memory is the fact that an address is just another datum, and so we may have a state of affairs like this:
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What makes it possible to represent graph-theoretical structures as data structures in computer memory is the fact that an address is just another datum, and so we may have a state of affairs like the following:
Returning to the abstract level, it takes three nodes to represent the three data records illustrated above: one root node connected to a couple of adjacent nodes. The items of data that do not point any further up the tree are treated as labels on the record-nodes where they reside, as shown below:
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Returning to the abstract level, it takes three nodes to represent the three data records illustrated above: one root node connected to a couple of adjacent nodes. The items of data that do not point any further up the tree are then treated as labels on the record-nodes where they reside, as shown below: