  Let $\mathfrak a$ be an ideal of holomorphic functions vanishing only at the
origin in $\mathbb{C}^n$. The \textit{type} of $\mathfrak a$ is an invariant
that measures the order of vanishing of the functions in $\mathfrak a$ along
holomorphic curves; this invariant is of importance in the study of subelliptic
estimates and subelliptic multiplier ideal sheaves. Recently there has been
some interest in the question of which curves actually compute the type. In
this note we prove that it is computed by one of the analytic irreducible
components of the intersection of $n-1$ general functions in $\mathfrak a$.
