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[โ€“] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No, we start counting at one. We start indexing at zero.

An array with one element has an element count of 1, and that element would be at index 0.

[โ€“] LaggyKar@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

This is how we end up with off-by-one errors