What I mean is that people use the ordinal number as the name of the month (as well as the day of the month). If you ask someone their birthday they’ll often sa

What I mean is that people use the ordinal number as the name of the month (as well as the day of the month). If you ask someone their birthday they’ll often say something like “five twenty, nineteen eighty-four.” This is a potential cause for confusion when writing computer code, because it’s very common for code to refer to items in a collection starting at zero.