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		Locke1689 on Aug 21, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dijkstra: Why numbering should start at zero "0123456789" `ch[0] = 0; ch[1] = 1; ch[2] = 2; : ch[9] = 9; ch[1] = 0; ch[2] = 1; ch[3] = 2;` ....

mononcqc on Aug 21, 2009 [–]

Please re-read his question: "how many chars we have?" "how many elements we have?"

  ch[1] = 0;
  ch[2] = 1;
  ch[3] = 2;
  ...
  ch[10] = 9;

This is about having the Nth element of the array with the index N rather than N-1.

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