<programming> An exceedingly common error induced in many
ways, such as by starting at zero when you should have started
at one or vice-versa, or by writing "< N" instead of "<= N" or
vice-versa. Often confounded with fencepost error, which is
properly a particular subtype of it.
[Jargon File]
(1998-09-21)
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