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Does 1-based indexing have any advantage, beyond familiarity to scientists?

Dijkstra to the rescue: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...

With 1-based indexing, length == last index.

Does 0-based indexing have any advantage, beyond ability to do pointer arithmetic with indexes?

In 0-based indexing, n % length is a value inside the range.

Not really, but it's not important either way.

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