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From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: The Joy of Zero-based Arrays
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Date: 7 Mar 88 18:44:16 GMT
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If you're looking for mathematical justifications for 0-based or 1-based
arithmetic, remember that the usual definition of n in set theory is
{ n-1, n-2, ... 1, 0 }.  Thus by analogy an array of n elements contains
elements n-1, n-2, ... 1, 0.

Really it's a matter of taste, like hex vs octal.

	Wayne