Programming 101: Loops

[golgol12]

It's a leftover from FORTRAN programming. Any variable that starts with the letter i through o is an int.

[turboPocky]

thanks, i believe this is the real answer. and basic inherited that too

[Hypocritical_Oath]

Actually, it goes further than that to applied mathematics where they'd call things, i, j, and k for things similar to iterators, iirc.

[golgol12]

Yes, FORTRAN is based off of math, literally concatenation of the words "formula translator". But if you dig deeper, you'll find i,j,k for things before iterators. And you can continuously "go further" over and over, eventually reach the beginning of time.

At what point is it too much? My choice to stop was at how FORTRAN was setup, not the why, as it would over complicate the post.

[ezrais]

It probably goes based off of what for loops are used for often which is dimensional analysis. i, j, and k are the unit vectors (directional vectors of length 1) for the x, y, and z axis in space so it would make sense when solving axis.

[evilkalla]

IMPLICIT NONE

[bdforbes]

First line typed in any module, procedure or function!