Why numbering should start at zero
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- 11 August 1982
- Retrieved
- Nov 8, 2019
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Why numbering should start at zero
When dealing with a sequence of length N, the elements of which we wish to distinguish by subscript, the next vexing question is what subscript value to assign to its starting element. Adhering to convention a) yields, when starting with subscript 1, the subscript range 1 ≤ i < N 1; starting with 0, however, gives the…