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The number function returns the number of buttons or fields on the current tile or on its background.

Usage:

[the] number of "objects"
[the] number of "chunks" in "expression"
[the] number of backgrounds [in this stack]
[the] number of tiles in "background"
[the] number of tiles [in this stack]
[the] number marked tiles

Example:

put the number of buttons into It
put number of items of line 1 of field 2 into listSize
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