A Pointer that points to memory location 0; ie, nothing.
Used to signify the end of a LinkedList in the same way a \0 is used to signify the end of a String in C.
Java throws null pointer exceptions when you try and reference the thing a null pointer points to (ie, try and access the memory at location 0). C will normally SegmentationFault.
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