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Obi-Wan Error

/ōbē-wän er-ər/

[RPI, from 'off-by-one' and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in Star Wars]

n. A loop of some sort in which the index is off by 1. Common when the index should have started from 0 but instead started from 1. A kind of off-by-one error.

See also zeroth.