Why is it difficult to store linked list in an array?

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Why is it difficult to store linked list in an array?..

Answer / deepti

because in linklist we can store as many elements as we
want because size does not matter .but in case of array if
we define size suppose 20 we can store only 20 elements .

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Why is it difficult to store linked list in an array?..

Answer / maria

Because of defragmentation, when node should be deleted.

Is This Answer Correct ?    15 Yes 2 No

Why is it difficult to store linked list in an array?..

Answer / sandy

because it grows dynamically. it can get extra node from
avail(available) list whereever array not having any avail
list......

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Why is it difficult to store linked list in an array?..

Answer / murali

Because array can not grow dynamically

Is This Answer Correct ?    10 Yes 6 No

Why is it difficult to store linked list in an array?..

Answer / truong

Because size of linked list is usually very large. So it is difficult to store data in a linked list in a continuously memory as an array.

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Why is it difficult to store linked list in an array?..

Answer /

array can grow dynamically...........

but it is a waste of memory to set them to grow dynamically

Is This Answer Correct ?    2 Yes 14 No

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