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===Disadvantages===

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>

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

== In science ==