Talk:Sparse array

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Redundant

This article should link to the sparse matrix article, which is the same concept, but a much better writing.

TeX showing

I'm not sure how to represent sparse arrays otherwise I would try to fix it up myself. Your TeX is showing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.111.248.59 (talk) 16:49, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fewer iterations

"Also, when a linked list is used, the array elements can be accessed through fewer iterations than in a normal array."

Don't get this part. --77.20.127.214 (talk) 03:09, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't get it either, sounds counter-intuitive. 185.31.142.251 (talk) 13:25, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sparse array a special case of a more general concept?

I know talk pages are not for asking questions or discussing a topic, but I have a feeling that sparse arrays may be a special case of a more general concept, and wonder whether that concept (which I don't know the name of) should be linked to from here. I am thinking that "in which most of the elements have the same value" (that is a_i = k for some constant k, often 0), could be generalised to a_i in K, where K is a set of values. Googling hasn't come up with anything for me, so maybe such a generalisation hasn't come up in the field? I find that hard to believe, though. --Lasse Hillerøe Petersen (talk) 22:06, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]