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		gfxgirl on Jan 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing We use it all the time. It's a measure of distance. If you haven't moved from where you started you've moved zero distance. That's what it represents in indexing, the distance you have to travel to get to the element you want.

coldtea on Jan 20, 2021 [–]

>We use it all the time. It's a measure of distance. If you haven't moved from where you started you've moved zero distance.

That's an offset. It's already covered in detail in TFA.

We don't deal with such offsets in programming, except in C pointer arithmetic (which infested this upon us).

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