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by mcsmash 4586 days ago
Using the variable names i/j/k for loops is such a widely used convention that IMHO it doesn't really mater for a lot of people. Virtually everyone I know will read "array[i]" and know exactly what's going on.

And believe it or not, those variable names aren't arbitrary. They hearken from the ancient times: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/86911