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Claus Führer
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Claus Führer is a professor of scientific computations at Lund University, Sweden. He has an extensive teaching record that includes intensive programming courses in numerical analysis and engineering mathematics across various levels in many different countries and teaching environments. Claus also develops numerical software in research collaboration with industry and received Lund University's Faculty of Engineering Best Teacher Award in 2016.
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Container conversions


We summarize in the following Table 3.2 the most important properties of the container types presented so far. Arrays will be treated in Chapter 4, Linear Algebra – Arrays.

Table 3.2 : Container Types

As you can see in the previous table, there is a difference in accessing container elements, and sets and dictionaries are not ordered.

Due to the different properties of the various container types, we frequently convert one type to another:

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Claus Führer is a professor of scientific computations at Lund University, Sweden. He has an extensive teaching record that includes intensive programming courses in numerical analysis and engineering mathematics across various levels in many different countries and teaching environments. Claus also develops numerical software in research collaboration with industry and received Lund University's Faculty of Engineering Best Teacher Award in 2016.
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