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minus-squareDestide@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoHaaaaaang on is that why we start on 0…
minus-squaremacniel@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoNo. We count start at zero because the array already starts with an element of a specific size. Starting at 1 would always skip that initial element.
minus-squareBorgDrone@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoNo, we start counting at one. We start indexing at zero. An array with one element has an element count of 1, and that element would be at index 0.
minus-squareLaggyKar@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThis is how we end up with off-by-one errors
Haaaaaang on is that why we start on 0…
No. We count start at zero because the array already starts with an element of a specific size. Starting at 1 would always skip that initial element.
No, we start counting at one. We start indexing at zero.
An array with one element has an element count of 1, and that element would be at index 0.
This is how we end up with off-by-one errors