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Pauli operator

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I tried this example code snippet : from here

`from pyquil.paulis import ID, sX, sY, sZ

Pauli term takes an operator “X”, “Y”, “Z”, or “I”; a qubit to act on, and

an optional coefficient.

a = 0.5 * ID b = -0.75 * sX(0) * sY(1) * sZ(3) c = (5-2j) * sZ(1) * sX(2)

Construct a sum of Pauli terms.

sigma = a + b + c print(“sigma = {}”.format(sigma))`

I get error with the a = 0.5 * ID line the following : ##TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'float' and 'function'. Can’t understand why ? Any idea ?

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am610commented, Mar 27, 2020

perfect, thanks. works

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applebycommented, Mar 28, 2020

I’m actually not that familiar with forest-benchmarking or grove. If you don’t get a response on slack by early next week, you might consider opening an issue in the forest-benchmarking repo.

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