<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaLang&#x2F;julia&#x2F;issues&#x2F;558" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JuliaLang&#x2F;julia&#x2F;issues&#x2F;558</a><p><pre><code>  &gt; There is a huge discussion about this on the mailing list; please see that. If 0 is mathematically &quot;better&quot;, then why does the field of mathematics itself start indexes at 1? We have chosen 1 to be more similar to existing math software.

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A post above also appeals to mathematica. It&#x27;s been a while since I&#x27;ve had to internalize the &quot;cost&quot; of zero indexing, so this never felt very compelling.