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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Array offsets start at zero. Indices start at one. Normal humans that aren't stuck in CS101 count with indices.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You start counting with 1. If you're counting floors, where you enter the building you step on floor #1 and walking upstairs you land on floor# 2. Just like how there isn't a year 0 because we count the amount of time passed. You count the number of floors traveled.