Please include an example with the explanation. Reviewing the basic terminology. It's usually good enough - unless you're programming assembly - to envisage a pointer containing a numeric memory address, with 1 referring to the second byte in the process's memory, 2 the third, 3 the fourth and so on.... More @Wikipedia
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