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I believe the 'off by one' are called fence post errors. Building a fence, 50 feet, put a post every 10. How many fence posts do you need? Well 50 / 10 = 5 o

I believe the 'off by one' are called fence post errors. Building a fence, 50 feet, put a post every 10. How many fence posts do you need? Well 50 / 10 = 5 obviously :-)

sloaken 7y ago
Turns out good old wiki has an article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error
gshdg 7y ago
Fence post errors are a subset of off by one errors.
kleer001 7y ago
Not something I knew about. Thanks!