Ahhh, yes. But what a great way to emphasise that we
begin at zero. We begin our first trip about the sun at
age zero. Before the baker add that first donut, the box
contains zero donuts. ...
We programmers train ourselves (and future programmers)
to count the jumps, use indices to label the in-betweens
(including that pesky leading "in-between" we call '0'),
and then work to catch all our off-by-one errors.
-Dan
:-P
On 17 Dec 2011, at 12:54, Bo Jacoby wrote:
> when kids count they still say: one two three
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