In Other Languages
In other programming languages such as Pascal, indices may start at 1, so indexing in a block of memory can be changed to fit a start-at-1 addressing scheme by a simple linear transformation - in this scheme, the memory location of the ith element with base address b and element size s is b+(i-1)s.
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