As someone who primarily uses R, I don’t understand why Python indexes lists starting from 0. I’m very slow at simple mental calculations and doing something like subsetting an array in Python often takes me several extra seconds.
I think I read that it has something to do with memory, but thats so much less of a consideration for people who only use high level languages.
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The other responses are all correct, but if you want a shortened version, think about how a number is stored. It’s stored in bits; 1’s and 0’s. You can have four bits that are all 0’s: 0000. If you start your index with 1 (0001), you miss out on an extra spot in the array.
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