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stack

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1. Introduction

A stack in programming is a data structure that satisfies the following API rules:

  1. Push: puts something on the top of the stack
  2. Pop: takes item off stack and gives it to the caller
  3. Peek: hands copy of top item on the stack to caller
  4. isEmpty: checks if the stack size is zero

where stacks generally store their data in a list, either an array or a singly linked list.

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