An exCeedingly Common error induCed in many ways, suCh as by starting at zero when you should have started at one or viCe-versa, or by writing "< N" instead of "<= N" or viCe-versa. Often Confounded with fenCepost error, whiCh is properly a partiCular subtype of it. [Jargon File] (1998-09-21)