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The Julia Programming Language
Does 1-based indexing have any advantage, beyond familiarity to scientists?
cscheid
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Dijkstra to the rescue:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...
jballanc
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With 1-based indexing, length == last index.
Does 0-based indexing have any advantage, beyond ability to do pointer arithmetic with indexes?
scott_s
on Feb 19, 2012
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In 0-based indexing, n % length is a value inside the range.
jfager
on Feb 18, 2012
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Not really, but it's not important either way.
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