### A good answer might be:

No. You have to go through the list link by link. (Acually, in the hand-coded list, above, you could calculate where the fourth element was, but in general this can't be done.)

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- Data Structure
- Element (node) of a data structure
- Ordered list as an array.
- Linked list.
- The "next" field of linked list
- Pointers
- Traversal of a linked list.
- When to use `la` and when to use `lw` .

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