It would be amusing if archaeologists in the future also end up spending countless hours trying to decipher my shopping lists and poor math skills
replyThey hadn't yet decided whether to count from 0 or from 1.
replySurprisingly this comes up more then you'd think, for instance in Ancient Rome, tomorrow is two days away so all the dates are off by one from what you'd think it was. They mainly count down and it goes, 5, 4, 3, day before, day.
reply“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.” — Stan Kelly-Bootle (first person to obtain a postgraduate degree in computer science)
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