Editing Memory address (section)

{{Short description|Reference to a specific memory location}}
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[[File:Paging.svg|thumb|300px|In a computer using [[virtual memory]], accessing the location corresponding to a memory address may involve many levels.]]
In [[computing]], a '''memory address''' is a reference to a specific [[computer memory|memory]] location in memory used by both [[software]] and [[computer hardware|hardware]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abrahamson |first=Karl R. |date=Aug 20, 2022 |title=5.10.1. The Memory and Memory Addresses |url=http://www.cs.ecu.edu/karl/3300/spr14/Notes/C/Memory/memory.html |access-date=Feb 3, 2023 |website=East Carolina University}}</ref> These addresses are fixed-length sequences of [[Numerical digit|digits]], typically displayed and handled as [[signedness|unsigned]] [[integer (computing)|integers]]. This numerical representation is based on the features of CPU (such as the [[instruction pointer]] and incremental [[memory address register|address registers]]). Programming language constructs often treat the memory like an array.