(definition)
Definition: The location of an item in an array.
Aggregate child (... is a part of or used in me.)
one-based indexing, 0-based indexing.
Note: In most programming languages, the first array index is 0 or 1, and indexes continue through the natural numbers. The upper bound of an array is generally language and possibly system specific.
Author: PR
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Patrick Rodgers, "array index", from
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures, Paul E. Black, ed.,
NIST.
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