Nikhil

• Jul 23rd, 2007

 

Because array index shows distance from the 1st element. Since the first element is zero distance away from itself, index starts from zero. The next element will be "index*scaling factor" distance away from 1st element. In case of integer array next elements will be  1*2, 2*2, 3*2, 4*2, .................bytes  away from the first element .