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by Old_Thrashbarg 1392 days ago
If you ask most people to just label their apples, they'd call the first one "1", and so on. Very few people would say, "please pass me apple #0".
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And if someone did say that to me, I would pass them no apple, since that's how we use everyday language. And if I knew they were a programmer, I'd first ask them in which programming language they'd wish me to pass the apple.