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algorithms are em(abstract) in the sense that the algorithms can be used with
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(practically) any data type.
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Several elements also used by the standard template library have already been
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discussed in the annotations(). In chapter ref(CONTAINERS) abstract containers
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were discussed, and in section ref(FUNOBJ) function objects were introduced.
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Also, em(iterators) were mentioned at several places in this document.
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chapter. Iterators, adaptors, smart pointers, multi threading and other
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algorithms are covered in the next chapter (ref(GENERIC)).
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em(Allocators) take care of the memory allocation within the