Really newbie question, Can someone clearly define Indice?
Do you mean mathematically?
If you had 2^3 or 9^10 in maths, the 3 and 10 (what the number is to the power of) are known as indices.
Or in programming?
Indices could be a plural of index, and an index could be, for example, a point in an array you're trying to access. For example, in my_array[4], 4 is the index of the array being accessed.
If you had 2^3 or 9^10 in maths, the 3 and 10 (what the number is to the power of) are known as indices.
Or in programming?
Indices could be a plural of index, and an index could be, for example, a point in an array you're trying to access. For example, in my_array[4], 4 is the index of the array being accessed.
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| If you had 2^3 or 9^10 in maths, the 3 and 10 (what the number is to the power of) are known as indices. |
Exponents, you mean.
The meaning of the word index is more or less the same in programming and mathematics.
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Exponents indeed. Although I was trying to avoid the word under the circumstances. I figured if some was unfamiliar with the term 'indices' then they may be equally as unfamiliar with 'exponents'.
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