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  • I agree with you and I want to add that although index is more meaningful it is a reserved word in some languages so we simply use i. Commented Apr 27, 2011 at 11:26
  • i can also be thought of as "iteration". Commented Apr 27, 2011 at 12:57
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    @M. Sameer - You misundestood. I didn't mean to say "i" should be replaced by "index" for convenience, but that "i" means/can be taken as an index (of a loop). Not in the way that you should go and rename "i" to "index" however. Perhaps this is an english language thing, and I'm missing some finer aspects of it. Commented Apr 27, 2011 at 13:16
  • @Rook: maybe replace i the letter with i the variable name for clarity? Commented Apr 27, 2011 at 16:21
  • @Muffun - Rollback of an edit that was made without any explanation as of why, that does not contribute to the point, etc. etc. Commented Apr 27, 2011 at 16:21