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| author | Melissa Weber Mendonça <melissawm@gmail.com> | 2021-10-19 16:18:38 -0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-10-19 16:18:38 -0300 |
| commit | f17d410410e4aa86193e60f946af1e2e76f2410e (patch) | |
| tree | 1d7973d9f6caa17b5aa985b26b18d88c78daa707 | |
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| parent | 5d2ca1e357164a1d09417de16543b5cf60faf1f2 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #20137 from arushi-08/reword-array-has-one-axis
DOC: Reword array has one axis
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/user/quickstart.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/user/quickstart.rst b/doc/source/user/quickstart.rst index dd5773878..a9cfeca31 100644 --- a/doc/source/user/quickstart.rst +++ b/doc/source/user/quickstart.rst @@ -45,10 +45,11 @@ NumPy's main object is the homogeneous multidimensional array. It is a table of elements (usually numbers), all of the same type, indexed by a tuple of non-negative integers. In NumPy dimensions are called *axes*. -For example, the coordinates of a point in 3D space ``[1, 2, 1]`` has -one axis. That axis has 3 elements in it, so we say it has a length -of 3. In the example pictured below, the array has 2 axes. The first -axis has a length of 2, the second axis has a length of 3. +For example, the array for the coordinates of a point in 3D space, +``[1, 2, 1]``, has one axis. That axis has 3 elements in it, so we say +it has a length of 3. In the example pictured below, the array has 2 +axes. The first axis has a length of 2, the second axis has a length of +3. :: |