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by inigyou 14 days ago
Data arrangement and data structure are the same word...
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Kind of. Many dynamic set data structures do not require the set elements to be in some layout inside an array; the storage is abstracted.

When we put the binary tree nodes into an array and move from the parent to children using indexing calculations, rather following pointers that could go anywhere, then it's an explicit part of the data structure.