ElementAt function

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Namespace: Microsoft.Quantum.Arrays

Package: Microsoft.Quantum.Standard

Returns the at the given index of an array.

function ElementAt<'T> (index : Int, array : 'T[]) : 'T

Input

index : Int

Index of element

array : 'T[]

The array being indexed.

Output : 'T

Type Parameters

'T

The type of each element of array.

Example

Get the third number in four famous integer sequences. (note that the 0 index corresponds to the first value of the sequence.)

let lucas = [2, 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, 47, 76];
let prime = [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29];
let fibonacci = [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34];
let catalan = [1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 42, 132, 429, 1430, 4862];
let famous2 = Mapped(ElementAt<Int>(2, _), [lucas, prime, fibonacci, catalan]);
// same as: famous2 = [3, 5, 1, 2]

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