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by a1369209993 2249 days ago
> Because that's a natural mathematical model.

No it's not; it's a artifact of humans numbering items based on "total I have, including this one" rather than the more sensible but contrary to a implementation detail of human neuropsychology "number of items preceeding this one".

> "the n-th element" being at position n is handy and natural.

Yes, starting with the 0th element at position 0.