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<p>or <a href="page.php?w=Word-addressable">words</a>).</p>

<p>For example, if <code>A</code> is an <a href="page.php?w=Array_data_type">array</a> of characters containing <code>"abcdef"</code>, the fourth element containing the character <code>'d'</code> has an offset of three from the start of <code>A</code>.</p>

<p><big> In assembly language </big></p>
<p>In <a href="page.php?w=computer_engineering">computer engineering</a> and low-level programming (such as <a href="page.php?w=assembly_language">assembly language</a>), an <b>offset</b> usually denotes</p><p>
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