Re: Why do programmers start counting from 0?

Wasn't really for speed or space. With memory management, when you create an array, the indexer just does pointer arithmetic. so for an array of 10 ints, you set aside 40 bytes of memory. [0] will give you the starting memory address of the array + 0 * sizeof(int). [1] will give you 1 * sizeof(int) or 4 and so on. Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 17:08:51 CST