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Stacks are a LIFO data structure. Values are pushed onto a stack. When a program wants to retreive a value from the stack, it pops the top of the stack, therefore, the last value added to the stack is the first one taken off.
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FILO
LIFO / FILO
An acronym standing for either "Last In, First Out" or "First In, Last Out" (both options are equivalent). Used in accounting, inventories, and computing to represent the flow of goods or data through storage.Stacks are a LIFO data structure. Values are pushed onto a stack. When a program wants to retreive a value from the stack, it pops the top of the stack, therefore, the last value added to the stack is the first one taken off.
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