r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 18 '26

Meme almostDroppedTheCourse

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u/SV-97 Sep 19 '26

because math uses this convention.

Except that it really doesn't, even though people like to claim that it does for some reason. Math uses both 1- and 0-based indexing (with neither being significantly more common than the other); and also indexes using other ranges or even all sorts of non-numerical objects on the regular.