Could it be, that we use i for incremental loops because it's an abbreviation for iterator (or increment)? 🤔 Why haven't I though of this sooner?!

What does the "j" in the inner loop stand for then?

🤔I'm starting to think everyone is trying to rickroll @C0D4

https://devrant.com/rants/2162709/...

I can see a lazy dev that needed more than one var for nested loops and just took the next few letters of the alphabet xD That's what I would do too tbh :')

It's probably from math, where i j k are used as indexes or unit vectors for different directions.

It's inherited from Fortran. See comments here: https://devrant.com/rants/2122686/...

@gronostaj aaaaand if you read the rant you posted, fortran got it from math, like I said.

@Quirinus It says so, but I'm not 100% sure about that. I think I read somewhere that Fortran had 4 "implicit" variables for each basic data type. ABCD for first one, EFGH for second and then IJKL were natural candidates for integers. But maybe it's just my memory making things up and I'm too lazy to search.

@gronostaj could be.