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How many days are between Sunday and Saturday of this week (I live in a place where weeks are generally seen to start on Sunday and end on Saturday)? Five, rig
by sib 3y ago
How many days are between Sunday and Saturday of this week (I live in a place where weeks are generally seen to start on Sunday and end on Saturday)?
Five, right? Would you say seven?
Guess I must be a "math folk."
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- sebastiennight 3y agoNo, I would say 6. How many days are there between today and tomorrow? By definition, there is exactly 1 (one) day. That's what tomorrow means :) Your math would say zero.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoWhich day is between today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday)? There are no days between today and tomorrow. No things _between_ this thing and the next thing. I find your mathematics pretty confusing.
- sebastiennight 3y agoIn most contexts for time differences, a "day" is a time interval (24 hours) instead of a "concrete thing". If my job contract says that there has to be "one day between" my resignation letter and my handing back my badge, then it means I can resign on Monday and give back the badge on Tuesday (the next day ; "one day after" ; because "one day" has elapsed). Not Monday/Wednesday. Otherwise "zero days between" these events would mean Monday/Tuesday (with your math) and Monday/Monday is also zero? But I guess we're just rehashing the old argument on whether indexes should start at zero.
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