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In Fortran a vector or matrix start with 1, but it is easy to change a vector so that it starts with zero or even a negative number. If we have a double precision Fortran vector which starts at 10 and ends at 10, we could declare it as REAL(KIND=8) :: vector(-10:10). Similarly, if we want to start at zero and end at 10 we could write REAL(KIND=8) :: vector(0:10). We have also seen that Fortran allows us to write a matrix addition A=B+C as A = B + C. This means that we have overloaded the addition operator so that it translates this operation into two loops and an addition of two matrix elements aij=bij+cij.