fencepost problem

== English == === Etymology === By analogy with fence-building. If one wants to say "lay a fencepost, then a length of fence, then repeat", then a special case must be made for the final fencepost. If one wants to say "lay a length of fence, then a fencepost, then repeat", then a special case must be made for the initial fencepost. === Pronunciation === === Noun === fencepost problem (plural fencepost problems) (programming) A problem dealing with how to treat the initial or boundary values of a discrete problem. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== off-by-one error