COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
DATA STRUCTURES
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Question
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Lists can contain items of different data types
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Arrays can only contain items of a single data type
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Lists and arrays are the same thing
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A list is a type of variable
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Detailed explanation-1: -An array can be of any data type, but can only hold a single data type. Specifically, you can declare an array that holds strings and an array that holds integers, but you cannot declare a single array that holds both strings AND integers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Arrays a kind of data structure that can store a fixed-size sequential collection of elements of the same type. An array is used to store a collection of data, but it is often more useful to think of an array as a collection of variables of the same type i.e. 1. All elements of an array can be Integers.
Detailed explanation-3: -No, we cannot store multiple datatype in an Array, we can store similar datatype only in an Array.
Detailed explanation-4: -The data type of the array. This is also known as the element type. Supported data types are: BINARY, BIT, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, DECIMAL, DOUBLE PRECISION, FLOAT, INTEGER, NUMERIC, REAL, SMALLINT, TIME, TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP TZ, TINYINT, and VARBINARY . An unsigned integer, indicating the array’s maximum element size.