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Why are off by one errors so common and what can we do to prevent them?

It seems that off-by-one errors are one of the most (if not the most) common programming errors (see What are common mistakes in coding?, and conventional wisdom). What is the reason these are so ...
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What are common mistakes in coding? [closed]

For example, a common error in C/C++ is to use the assignment operator = instead of the comparison operator ==.