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There's not much reason in a high-level language to start at 0. Humans reason about iteration in terms of the natural numbers.

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• wnoise 7y ago
  That doesn't help: mathematicians have two definitions for "the natural numbers", one starting at zero, and one at one.
  • psychometry 7y ago
    It's very clear which definition I'm using. No need to be so pedantic.
  • goatlover 7y ago
    The languages designed for scientific computing, which make heavy use of math libraries, start at 1.