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Counting fingers (or other items) isn't a positional numeral system, so it's really apples to oranges. Also, "first" has a meaning of "nothing precedes it", whi
by karamanolev 4y ago
Counting fingers (or other items) isn't a positional numeral system, so it's really apples to oranges. Also, "first" has a meaning of "nothing precedes it", which is separate from the indexing system", it shouldn't mean "at index 1", unless otherwise specified.
- polyamid23 4y agoThough the idea of an index as a position instead of an address is weird to me, you can indeed make that analogy. The "first" element of an array has the index zero, as in "zero elements precede it".