http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/category/qotd en-us 40 do what you love <p>If you were looking for an answer to this question, you apparently cannot get a straight one in the <a href="http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=357877&amp;start=0&amp;tstart=0">java forums</a>. Just one of many choice quotes:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Anyway, any logically counting would start at 0.</p> </blockquote> <p>I tried that once. I referred to my son as &#8220;Number Zero Son&#8221;. Got a definitely negative response.</p> </blockquote> Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:57:00 +0000 urn:uuid:a41e4385-8403-4baf-b382-bff2382ece22 Nick Sieger http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/07/27/why-does-an-array-index-start-at-0-not-1 random qotd java http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/trackback/37