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===Disadvantages===

Zero-based is unnatural and confusing, especially to mathematicians and scientists. All math or science based programing languages uses one-based array index. For example, FORTRAN, SASL, MATLAB, Smalltalk, Lua, Julia, Mathematica, MATLAB.

Some believe{{weasel word|date=November 2013}} that zero-based indexing actually causes more off-by-one errors than it eliminates, especially among new programmers. <ref>Programming Microsoft® Visual C#® 2005 by Donis Marshall</ref>

== In science ==