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Cauli Tomaz
12,362 PointsAn array that holds 5 floats
Should be float real_numbers[4], not float real_numbers[5], right?
3 Answers
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsno, when declaring an array the number you put in the brackets is the length of the array. So in this case since the length needs to be 5, you would use 5.
its not like with array indexing and you want to get the first element in the array so you use index 0. This is different, although I understand your confusion
Andrew Shook
31,709 PointsNo, when you declare an array, which is what you are doing, the number you put in is not a zero index. So if you what the array to hold 5 things you have to put 5. This might seem confusing, since when you access the last element of an array with 5 items you would use 4. For now just remember that when you create an array you put the actually number of things you want to store in the array inside the square braces. When you want to access a value in an array you take it position in the array and subtract 1.
Cauli Tomaz
12,362 PointsWow, what a noobie I am. Thanks guys!