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Edsger Dijkstra's note on starting array indices a...
There are different conventions on this. Some textbooks have sequences starting from one, some from zero.
There's an advantage to starting from zero if you want to work with Taylor expansions.
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There's an advantage to starting from zero if you want to work with Taylor expansions.