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FIGURE 13-1: A list is simply a sequence of items, much as you would write on a notepad.
Understanding how computers view lists
The computer doesn’t view lists in the same way that you do. It doesn’t have an internal notepad and use a pen to write on it. A computer has memory. The computer stores each item in a list in a separate memory location, as shown in Figure 13-2. The memory is contiguous, so as you add new items, they’re added to the next location in memory.
