<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (September 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> In computer science, an array data structure, or simply an array, is a data structure consisting of a collection of elements (values or variables), each identified by at least one array index or key . An array is stored such that the position of each element can be computed from its index tuple by a mathematical formula . The simplest type of data structure is a linear array, also called one - dimensional array . </P> <P> For example, an array of 10 32 - bit integer variables, with indices 0 through 9, may be stored as 10 words at memory addresses 2000, 2004, 2008,...2036, so that the element with index i has the address 2000 + 4 × i . </P>

Each data item in an array is called