\setcounter (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 13.4 `\setcounter`

Synopsis:

    \setcounter{counter}{value}

Globally set the counter counter to have the value of the value argument, which must be an integer. Thus, you can set a counter’s value as `\setcounter{section}{5}`. Note that the counter name does not start with a backslash.

In this example if the counter `theorem` has value 12 then the second line will print ‘`XII`’.

    \setcounter{exercise}{\value{theorem}}
    Here it is in Roman: \Roman{exercise}.

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