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<p>An assignment statement consists of a variable (possibly multivariate
with indexing information) and an expression. Executing an
assignment statement evaluates the expression on the right-hand side
and assigns it to the (indexed) variable on the left-hand side.
An example of a simple assignment is as follows.<a href="#fn5" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref5"><sup>5</sup></a></p>
<pre class="stan"><code>n = 0;</code></pre>
<p>Executing this statement assigns the value of the expression <code>0</code>,
