applications of linked lists and mostly used linked list?

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applications of linked lists and mostly used linked list?..

to implement other data structure such as
stack,queues,trees,graphetc
to maintain directory of name.
perform arithmetic operation on long integers.
to manipulate polynomials.
to represent sparse matrices
most used link list are:-
1 linear l_l.
2 doubly L_L.
3 circular L_L.

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applications of linked lists and mostly used linked list?..

Answer / sreejith menon

Used mainly to represent elements in a dynamic environment where it is added on an ad-hoc basis.
Especially in the cases where the total number of elements in the list cannot be pre-decided, linked lists are used. This does not lead to space insufficiency or space wastage as in case of arrays.
For eg. The no. of terms in a order-n polynomial varies greatly, using an array to store the co-efficients is an inefficient methods. If the array size is declared 100, a quadratic equation will use just 3 index and the rest 99 will be wasted. While for a sine or cosine series (from x to infinity) an overflow error might occur..!

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applications of linked lists and mostly used linked list?..

Answer / ash

used in gamming application and file system in operation system.

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