It reminds me of mathematical induction, where the k=n and k=n+1 cases are compared. The emphasis is on the +1, the next case to be proved. It looks like this

It reminds me of mathematical induction, where the k=n and k=n+1 cases are compared. The emphasis is on the +1, the next case to be proved. It looks like this page in the SQLite docs has had the "n+1" terminology for as long as it's been on the internet archive (2016): https://web.archive.org/web/20161112021608/https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html https://web.archive.org/web/20161112021608/https://www.sqlit...