What is `N` in `Array{T,N}`?

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As in the title, what is N in Array{T,N} ?
When dealing with parametric types, the doc shows the parameter being a Type, but here it is an integer.
The doc actually says: " it can be any type at all (or a value of any bits type, actually, although here it’s clearly used as a type). Point{Float64} is…"

Is this the case?

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It’s intended to be the number of dimensions (i.e. 1 for a Vector, 2 for Matrix etc). However, syntactically, you can make it whatever you want. Array{Float64, 'q'} is a valid type, even if you can’t instantiate it.

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That’s what you have here. For Array{T,N}, the parameter N is the value of a bits type (an Int value), indicating the dimensionality of the array.

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