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I'm not really convinced by Dijkstras paper. He is basically saying indexing from zero is more natural because if you have an array of natural numbers including zero, then the range of numbers [0..n] is denoted by the index [0..n] which is logical. With 1-indexing you have have to write [1..n+1] to get the values [0..n] which is weird and ugly. Sure, but this assumes that the array in question is starting with 0 in the first place! The whole argument is begging the question.