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zipper

Summary

zipper ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (46 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • zipper's subclass of is recorded as data structure[2].
  • zipper's has use is recorded as purely functional data structure[3].
  • zipper's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026h0lj[4].
  • zipper's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/zipper[5].
  • zipper's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03664057n[6].
  • zipper's named by is recorded as Gérard Huet[7].
  • zipper's Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID is recorded as zipper[8].
  • zipper's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 105782903[9].
  • zipper's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C105782903[10].

Why It Matters

zipper ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (46 views/month).[1]

Related Entities

Gérard Huet

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . st.cs.uni-saarland.de. Retrieved . st.cs.uni-saarland.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). zipper. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/zipper-q6577686
MLA “zipper.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/zipper-q6577686.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_zipper-q6577686_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{zipper}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/zipper-q6577686}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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