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<p>Lists in Erlang are also used to describe sequences of printable characters (strings). A convenience class <a href="clojang/current/clojang.jinterface.erlang.string.html">string</a> is provided to represent Erlang strings.</p>
<h2><a href="#nodes" name="nodes"></a>Nodes</h2>
<p>A node as defined by Erlang/OTP is an instance of the Erlang Runtime System, a virtual machine roughly equivalent to a JVM. Each node has a unique name in the form of an id