Why do we love using i?
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  <a href="http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/86904/why-do-most-of-us-use-i-as-a-loop-counter-variable">Why do most of us use &#39;i&#39; as a loop counter variable?</a>  </p>
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<p>Maybe this questions seems to be extreamly stupid but I wonder why we use i as variable in most cases in for loops (and not other letter). This might be a historical cause.</p>

<p>eg.</p>

<pre><code>for(int i = 0; i &lt; 10; i++)
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