Really newbie question, Can someone clearly define Indice?

[zone19871]

Can someone clearly define Indices?

[ihato]

What are those?

[MrHutch]

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.

[Athar]

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.

[MrHutch]

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'.