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Fortran, really.
In Fortran, variables beginning with the letters
ithroughnhave integer type by default, whereas all other letters imply a real-number (floating-point) variable. You can change this by declaring a type, but usingifor a real is non-obvious.(Hence the old joke, "God is real — unless declared integer.")
idk, this arbitrary i-n range behaving differently than other variables sounds like a terrible source of weird bugs to me. I don't think variable names should ever change a program's behavior.
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This comes from early years, when FORTRAN was introduced and the programmers needed to save space in the punch cards. Today, to avoid this possible source of bugs, you usually state "implicit none" in the preamble.
So I’ve been an engineer doing code ports to newer versions of Fortran. I never knew why that was at the top of every file. Thank you.
Interesting. I assumed i for iterator.
i, j, k are commonly used as subscripts in linear algebra, too.
i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk =-1