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docs/source/format/Columnar.rst

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@@ -106,10 +106,12 @@ the different physical layouts defined by Arrow:
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* **Primitive (fixed-size)**: a sequence of values each having the
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same byte or bit width
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* **Variable-size Binary**: a sequence of values each having a variable
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byte length. Three variants of this layout are supported using
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* 32-bit offset encoding
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* 64-bit offset encoding
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* 128-bit view-or-inline encoding
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byte length. Two variants of this layout are supported using 32-bit
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and 64-bit length encoding.
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* **Views of Variable-size Binary**: a sequence of values each having a
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variable byte length. In contrast to Variable-size Binary, the values
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of this layout are distributed across potentially multiple buffers
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instead of densely and sequentially packed in a single buffer.
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* **Fixed-size List**: a nested layout where each value has the same
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number of elements taken from a child data type.
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* **Variable-size List**: a nested layout where each value is a

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