explanation of the question and the answer in the challenge

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I've done some research and found this to be the first part of the answer. I just am confused on two items:
1) what am I being asked to get the sum of? the number of numbers in the numbers constant or the am i looking to get the value of thier sum?
while counter < numbers.count {
    sum += numbers[counter]
    counter += 1
}
2) why does counter get placed in square brackets as if i am creating an array with it.
3)  also the .count is a method correct? a method which just counts the number of items there are?
```loops.swift
let numbers = [2,8,1,16,4,3,9]
var sum = 0
var counter = 0
// Enter your code below
```

Magnus Hållberg · Accepted Answer

Like the challenge explanation say, you are supposed to calculate the sum of the values in the numbers array.
Counter gets placed inside square braces because you use that to access the index for the values in the array. It starts out as 0 (zero) and gets updated by 1 every iteration of the while loop (counter += 1). 
Correct, it counts the elements of an array and returns an integer. 
Hope this helps

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