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Stack vs Queue?

Answer

A stack is a LIFO structure where you push/pop at the top, used for call stacks, undo, and depth‑first search. A queue is FIFO where you enqueue at the tail and dequeue at the head, used for scheduling, buffering, and breadth‑first search.

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