On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:10:26PM +0200, Christoph Eckert ce-at-christeck.de |LAU| wrote:
> > Computers count from zero. Always have, always will.
>
> yes, of course, I know.
>
> But it is possible to hide this in user interfaces. IMHO the machines
> have to serve the humans, not the other way around.
>
> How many mails are you reading right now, 0 or 1 ;-) ?
That doesn't matter. It's the difference between cardinal and ordinal
numbers. Even in computers, cardinal numbers (those designating a
quantity) use 0 for none and 1 for, well, 1. Ordinal numbers (those
that number things sequentially) always begin at 0 for the first item,
as far as the computer is concerned.
Chuck
Received on Fri Mar 31 08:15:05 2006
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