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The third hole is _offset_ by 2, but if you ask a carpenter to add number labels to your pigeonholes, they are going to start at 1.

Indexes start at 1, offsets start at 0.

Well, of course.

And offsets are the measurements that get you to an element - the question was explicitly phrased as "how do I get to" ...

The problem is that we call the things in square brackets indexes, when we should probably call them offsets

Technically they explicitly said “how do I get the”