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Occupy Wall Street Stack vs Queue
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:date: 2011-10-21 13:31
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:author: Russell Ballestrini
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:tags: Greatest Hits, Opinion
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:slug: occupy-wall-street-stack-vs-queue
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:status: published
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**Occupy Wall Street contributors claim to use a "stack" to determine
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speaking arrangements.**
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I plan to explain how the term "stack" used in this scenario does not
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align itself with the mathematical or computer science definition.
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The term stack means First In Last Out or "FILO". For example: a person
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placed on the stack in the morning would be the last to speak at the end
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of the day. This isn't happening like that...
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Occupy Wall Street compatriots really use a technique called "queue".
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Mathematicians and Computer Scientists define a queue as First In First
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Out or "FIFO". A real world example of a queue would be a line at the
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grocery store. The first person in line is the first person to leave the
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line.
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- An object enters a stack from the rear and exits the rear.
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- An object enters a queue from the rear and exits from the front.
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.. |image0| image:: /uploads/2011/10/stack-vs-queue.png
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.. contents::
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