James Matthews wrote: > Also computer start counting from 0 No no. Computers don't count. Programs count. And they start whereever you program them to start. Recall that humans count from 1 because of some historic evolution. The introduction of zero into human arithmetic came many centuries after counting. And met with much initial resistance. The origin for array indexes is also varied in its evolution. FORTRAN arrays are indexed starting at 1. In some languages you can specify the range of indexes as in dimension a (1900:2030) if you want to use the year as an index and don't care about years outside the range 1900..2030. > you can change this when you learn the language more but it isn't recommended! > Oh? who disrecommends it?
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