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Typo/text correction in get-started-with-sampler

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The sentence to change is the first line of step 1, "Initialize the account", in the Sampler quickstart guide get-started-with-sampler. Find that sentence in the source for the guide in this repository, which is likely a Jupyter notebook or Markdown file, and replace "to calculate the expectation value" with a phrase that matches the Sampler's role, such as "to process one or more quantum circuits". Done means the sentence reads correctly in the source and the guide still builds.

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Go to URL : https://quantum.cloud.ibm.com/docs/en/guides/get-started-with-sampler

In "Sampler quickstart", go to "Steps to use the Sampler primitive"
Now, go to, "1. Initialize the account".
First line is "You first need to initialize your account. You can then select the QPU you want to use to calculate the expectation value."

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Here Sampler primitives are discussed. The Sampler's core task is to sampling the output register from the execution of one or more quantum circuits on selected QPU, returns measurement outcome distributions, bitstrings, or quasi-probability distributions. With respect to Sampler primitives it is not used "to calculate the expectation value". So it is not correct or logical to say "select the QPU you want to use to calculate the expectation value."

Instead of line "You first need to initialize your account. You can then select the QPU you want to use to calculate the expectation value."

We can have one of following option (suggestion only)

  1. "You first need to initialize your account. You can then select the QPU you want to use"

  2. "You first need to initialize your account. You can then select the QPU you want to use to process one or more quantum circuits"

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