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I assume you're not arguing that humans got it wrong to ever count from 1. So you must mean that when counting things, we start from 1 and when indexing we star
by dash2 4y ago
I assume you're not arguing that humans got it wrong to ever count from 1. So you must mean that when counting things, we start from 1 and when indexing we start from 0. Like, "that dog has 4 legs", but when you refer to them it's the "0th leg, 1st leg, 2nd leg and 3rd leg"? This seems weird. It's true that then the first - sorry, 0th - leg is 0 from the start of the array. But it also means that the last element of the array is one less than its size. You'd also struggle to do the operation of counting. You'd have to remember, am I indexing or counting?
If you say so! Maybe you should start a foundation to encourage humanity to change its counting behaviour. The effective altruists might throw you a couple of million.