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  15. <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="./concepts.html#id1397">Random Access Sequence</a></h1>
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  17. <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#description" name="description">Description</a></h3>
  18. <p>A <a class="reference internal" href="./random-access-sequence.html">Random Access Sequence</a> is a <a class="reference internal" href="./bidirectional-sequence.html">Bidirectional Sequence</a> whose iterators model
  19. <a class="reference internal" href="./random-access-iterator.html">Random Access Iterator</a>. A random access sequence guarantees amortized constant
  20. time access to an arbitrary sequence element.</p>
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  23. <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#refinement-of" name="refinement-of">Refinement of</a></h3>
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  27. <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-requirements" name="expression-requirements">Expression requirements</a></h3>
  28. <p>In addition to the requirements defined in <a class="reference internal" href="./bidirectional-sequence.html">Bidirectional Sequence</a>,
  29. for any <a class="reference internal" href="./random-access-sequence.html">Random Access Sequence</a> <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">s</span></tt> the following must be met:</p>
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  39. <th class="head">Complexity</th>
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  43. <tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./begin.html" class="identifier">begin</a>&lt;s&gt;::type</span></tt></td>
  44. <td><a class="reference internal" href="./random-access-iterator.html">Random Access Iterator</a></td>
  45. <td>Amortized constant time</td>
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  49. <td>Amortized constant time</td>
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  51. <tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./at.html" class="identifier">at</a>&lt;s,n&gt;::type</span></tt></td>
  52. <td>Any type</td>
  53. <td>Amortized constant time</td>
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  59. <h3><a class="subsection-title" href="#expression-semantics" name="expression-semantics">Expression semantics</a></h3>
  60. <p>Semantics of an expression is defined only where it differs from, or is not
  61. defined in <a class="reference internal" href="./bidirectional-sequence.html">Bidirectional Sequence</a>.</p>
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  73. <tr><td><tt class="literal"><span class="pre"><a href="./at.html" class="identifier">at</a>&lt;s,n&gt;::type</span></tt></td>
  74. <td>The <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">n</span></tt>th element from the beginning of the sequence; see <a class="reference internal" href="./at.html">at</a>.</td>
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  89. <a class="reference internal" href="./begin.html">begin</a> / <a class="reference internal" href="./end.html">end</a>, <a class="reference internal" href="./at.html">at</a></p>
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