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Question: What is the purpose of the SparkContext in Apache Spark?
Answer: SparkContext is the entry point for Spark functionality and represents the connection to the Spark cluster. It coordinates the execution of operations on the cluster.

Example:

val sc = new SparkContext("local", "SparkExample")
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