Re: 0-based Indexing

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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:33:38PM +1000, dm31 at uow.edu.au wrote:
> 
<snip> 
> Also, for example. say I want to use 1 byte of storage as my 
> index var. If I start at 0, I get from 0-255 different 
> elements, whereas if I used 1-base then I could only get 1-
> 255.
<snip> 

Um, in C, int x[255] would give elements 0-254.

Not sure what language you are talking about.

jbrown

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