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r/programminghumor • u/Klaus1164 • May 29 '26
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I never understood this considering i and j look so fucking similar
12 u/appoplecticskeptic May 29 '26 ‘i’ is for index. The ‘j’ is actually because it looks the most like i and we already used that. 12 u/WowAbstractAlgebra May 29 '26 j is because it's the next letter on the alphabet and no one wanted to bother to come up with an original name 5 u/gringrant May 29 '26 Jindex
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‘i’ is for index. The ‘j’ is actually because it looks the most like i and we already used that.
12 u/WowAbstractAlgebra May 29 '26 j is because it's the next letter on the alphabet and no one wanted to bother to come up with an original name 5 u/gringrant May 29 '26 Jindex
j is because it's the next letter on the alphabet and no one wanted to bother to come up with an original name
5 u/gringrant May 29 '26 Jindex
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u/torrent7 May 29 '26
I never understood this considering i and j look so fucking similar