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Random access (more precisely and more generally called direct access) is the ability to access an arbitrary element of a sequence in equal time or any datum from a population of addressable elements roughly as easily and efficiently as any other, no matter how many elements may be in the set. In computer science it is typically contrasted to sequential access which requires data to be retrieved in the order it was stored.

Random access - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Computer memory concept This article needs more citations . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . Find sources: "Random access" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2011 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Random access compared to sequential access Random access (also called direct access ) is the ability to access an arbitrary element of a sequence in equal time or any datum from a population of add

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