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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by Twisol on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:31AM (#18979682)
Where does your definition of "an indexing" originate? The word "index" literally means "to point at" (hence, index/pointer finger), and in this sense, every element may indeed be indexed -- in this case, by means of a unique integer.

If I had to give a name to the concept you're talking about, it would be an "ordinal index".

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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by e12e on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:06PM (#18982226)
Index finger, or first finger, right next to the zeroeth finger, the thumb... ;)
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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by coldtea on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @01:52PM (#18981340)
>If I had to give a name to the concept you're talking about, it would be an "ordinal index".

Which is both the naive understanding of a numeric index in everyday life in general, and the most common case in mathematics (and most math/scientific software).

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