off-by-one error
<programming> An exceedingly common error induced in many ways, such as
by starting at zero when you should have started at one or vice-versa, or by
writing "< N" instead of "<= N" or vice-versa. Often confounded with fencepost
error, which is properly a particular subtype of it.
[Jargon File]
(1998-09-21)
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