why i

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-05-25, Duncan Booth <me at privacy.net> wrote:

> The actual reason why everyone uses I and then J as the for loop indexes 
> was that Fortran, by default, assumed all variables starting with letters 
> from I-N were integer,

That that was because people always used i,j,k as indexes.

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