Java Code Help!

[Jagst3r15]

Hey ya'll,

I took my Comp Science exam earlier today and there was a question essentially asking what is the index of the 512,456,672th element of this array?

My answer was just one over, because 0 counts as an element, so the answer would be 512,456,673 correct?

I hope I got this one right, I was pretty confidant about my other answers.

[Mainard]

Hello Jagst3r15,

It seems like an arbitrarily large index. A legitimate use for that many values would probably be better use with a database or c++. Java would probably throw IndexOutOfBoundsException.

[Jagst3r15]

I think you're right...I kind of figured it may be IndexOutOfBoundsException, but thought that answer might be too easy

[Jagst3r15]

but wait, I didn't say this: we werent doing this in a comp program, this was just on paper and we had no idea what the array was. It was just a vauge question with a huge number like the one above...

[Mainard]

Java is cool, I love c++

[Haleo]

To answer your original questions, yes 0 counts as a number in the array. So if you want a array of size 10, you would do array[9].