Why do we need a, _, c in LSTM cell

Course Q&A Deep Learning Specialization Sequence Models
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Why do we need _.
Why not just a,c = LSTM_cell()

This confuses me. I hope someone can give me a nice example to understand this.
Regards

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Hey @statsconchris, as conveyed to you here, please post in the appropriate categories to get responses from our mentors.

Iā€™m moving this post to DLS Course 5.

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The function returns three parameters, but we need the first and third ones. So we need a placeholder for the second parameter.

It could have been any legal variable name. They decided to use ā€˜_ā€™.