Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

        Classic BASIC actually splits the difference.

dim a(10)

allocates 11 elements, indexed 0..10 -- but most classes tend to ignore
element 0, and algorithms are as if only 10 elements exist starting at
1.

Basic also has the OPTION BASE instruction, which affects that.

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