# Find index of maximum value of array

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**Created:** [December 9, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/find-index-of-maximum-value-of-array/51525 "2020-12-09T13:37:34Z")
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You could use `findfirst(x -> x == maximum(X), X)` or `findfirst(==(maximum(X)), X)`, but the easiest thing to do is `argmax(X)`.

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