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Yeah. It has nothing with intuition or mathematical sense, quite the contrary. It’s just a quirk of a language that got transformed as “the natural way” after d
by kergonath 3y ago
Yeah. It has nothing with intuition or mathematical sense, quite the contrary. It’s just a quirk of a language that got transformed as “the natural way” after decades of reinforcement. There were other languages before C where array indices started at 1.
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoThat's right. Before, and after too. R for example has indices starting in 1. But I was thinking about the specific 0-based convention. I guess I was wrong about it though.