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kangalioo on Jan 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing

Exactly. There's tons of little annoyances that arise from 1-based indexing. Working on software projects about data analysis or similar makes this crystal clear. 0-based indexing may not be natural for human society, but it very much is natural for calculations and operations on data - exactly what programming languages are meant to do.

giantDinosaur on Jan 20, 2021 [–]

And look how annoying it is that we didn't have a year 0: 2001 was the start of the 21st century. How horrible is that!

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