>I've been thinking about this this morning. Who invented the zero based approach, which applies to a lot of things in several development environments, including, among others, .NET. This is always a waste of time trying to understand/find which one applies to a specific component. I mean, when I start counting, I start at 1, right? lol


Has been there at least since C - which must be the seventies

Think of zero based as an offset

It does have its advantages. If you start counting from zero, the address where element n starts is the startAddress + n * widthOfElement

For one based it would be startAddress + ( n-1) * widthOfElement

Zero based : for 0 to count-1
One based : for 1 to count