Obi-wan Error /oh'bee-won` Er'*r/ N. [RPI, From `off-by-one' And The Obi-Wan Kenobi Character In "Star Wars"] A Loop Of Some Sort In Which The Index Is Off By 1.

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obi-wan error /oh'bee-won` er'*r/ n.

[RPI, from
`off-by-one' and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in "Star
Wars"] A loop of some sort in which the index is off by 1. Common
when the index should have started from 0 but instead started from
1. A kind of off-by-one error. See also zeroth.

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