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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 3 points 11 months ago

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