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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, look at the implementation above:

n <= 4

Means it’s inclusive.

You’re probably referring to some other implementation that doesn’t involve such fine control, like Python where range(4) means [0 1 2 3]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I meant generally. Isn't it most common if not best practice to say for (i = 0; i < whatever; i++)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fair. I guess to accommodate zero-indexing so that it still happens whatever times, not whatever + 1 times.