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Probably 0-based? I'd assume they'd come to the same reasoning as we did, that indexing into an offset starting at zero works better for addressing memory.
by didibus 4y ago
Probably 0-based? I'd assume they'd come to the same reasoning as we did, that indexing into an offset starting at zero works better for addressing memory.
- unsafecast 4y agoWould they even have linear memory? That's a pretty big assumption. They might also have a completely different paradigm that we would never ever think of.
- onei 4y agoWe use 0-based, but we also invented the concept of 0. It's true that multiple civilizations independently invented it, but perhaps an alien civilization never invented it and got along fine without it.