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by stenl 914 days ago
Related: Dijkstra, ”Why numbering should start at zero”

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...

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I am a programmer. I numbers strings, lists and arrays from 0. 'Normal' people don't. I asked my wife what the position of the letter 'a' was in 'abc' and she said '1'. When I suggested it was 0 she looked at me like I was insane. Excel FIND() indexes from 1.