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[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] LaggyKar@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

This is how we end up with off-by-one errors

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