> If zero indexing were so great, mathematicians would have made it the default centuries if not millennia ago They did. For any context where the index contri

> If zero indexing were so great, mathematicians would have made it the default centuries if not millennia ago They did. For any context where the index contributes to the math[1] (i.e. is not simply a label convention like "the x (first) component") the index always start at zero. Polynomials, Fourier series, geometric series, Bessel functions (both their order and their series expansions), etc. [1]: Except, of course, when a divergent 1/0 term shows up.