Obi-wan error

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obi-wan error
/oh´bee·won` er'@r/
Usage: n.
Derivation: RPI, from off-by-one and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in Star Wars

See Also: zeroth


obi-wan error: /oh´bee·won` er'@r/ n.

[RPI, from off-by-one and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in Star Wars] A loop of some sort in which the index is off by one.

  1. Common when the index should have started from 0 but instead started from 1.
  2. A kind of off-by-one error. See also zeroth.
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Sources

Source: obi-wan error, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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