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one-based indexing

(definition)

Definition: Indexing (an array) beginning with 1.

Aggregate parent (I am a part of or used in ...)
array.

See also 0-based indexing.

Note: That is, an array A with n items is accessed as A[1], A[2], ..., A[n].

Author: PEB


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Entry modified 18 March 2004.
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Paul E. Black, "one-based indexing", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 18 March 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/oneBasedIndexing.html