Tables

Have you ever needed to look up something in a table? That’s a trivial task for a human, but computers must be given step-by-step instructions to do the same.

Simple Table

Use the following example to learn how to look up somethings in a table.

Item	Price
Oranges	$3.99
Laptop	$1200.00
Marbles	$1.25

Sortable Table

You can use a technique called pagination to interact with more complicated tables such as this table that lists countries based on population.

Rank	Country	Population (million)
1	India	1,429
2	China	1,426
3	United States	340
4	Indonesia	277.5
5	Pakistan	240.5
6	Nigeria	223.8
7	Brazil	216.4
8	Bangladesh	173
9	Russia	144.4
10	Mexico	128.5
11	Ethiopia	126.5
12	Japan	123.3
13	Philippines	117.3
14	Egypt	112.7
15	D.R. Congo	102
16	Vietnam	99
17	Turkey	84.3
18	Iran	84
19	Germany	83.8
20	Thailand	69.8
21	United Kingdom	67.9
22	France	65.3
23	Italy	60.5
24	Tanzania	59.7
25	South Africa	59.3

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