My hot take is that 1-based indexing is often a mistake in math too. It's also not universal, even within math. And linear algebra doesn't need 1-based indexing

My hot take is that 1-based indexing is often a mistake in math too. It's also not universal, even within math. And linear algebra doesn't need 1-based indexing either, and some operations are even more easily expressed with 0-based indexing.