Why “i” is used in for loops (twitter.com)

3 points by alblue 5y ago ↗ HN

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Which in turn is certainly derived from index variables in math (i for summation/product; i,j for matrix indexing and so on).

Old FORTRAN programmer here... I hated implicit data types and was never happier when IMPLICIT NONE was introduced.