Text Formatting ⇒ introduce example

[rayman]

I need to introduce an example in the text I am writting (in the same way as we introduce definitions, theorems and so on)
I have tried \begin{example} but such function did not work.
How do I do it that so that the example will be numberized as well (in the same way as for definitions)?
Thank you!

[shadgrind]

This is explained in the documentation for the amsthm package:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\newtheorem{example}{Example}
\begin{document}
\begin{example}
 For example, this is an example.
\end{example}
\end{document}

If you want the examples to be numbered by section you'd use

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\newtheorem{example}{Example}[section]

in the preamble.

[rayman]

thank you!