Take
Take[list, n] gives the first n elements of list.
Take[list, -n] gives the last n elements of list.
Take[list, 
m, n
] gives elements m through n of list.
Take[list, 
m, n, s
] gives elements m through n in steps of s.
Take[list, 
, 
, ... ] gives a nested list in which elements specified by 
are taken at level i in list.
Take uses the standard sequence specification (see Section A.3.5).
Examples: Take[
a,b,c,d,e
, 3]
.
Take[
a,b,c,d,e
, -2]
.
Take[Range[15], 
3, 12, 4
]
.
Take can be used on an object with any head, not necessarily List.
Take[list, 
, 
] effectively extracts a submatrix from list.
Example: Take[
a,b,c
,
d,e,f
, -1, 2]
.
See The Mathematica Book on the web: Section 1.8.4.
See also: Part, Drop, Select, Cases, Partition.
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