I think you missed the joke. In every day life, ordinals start at one. Formally, they start at zero (we owe their modern definition to non other than von Neuman

I think you missed the joke. In every day life, ordinals start at one. Formally, they start at zero (we owe their modern definition to non other than von Neumann). A programmer's 0th world problem really is a first world problem, taking into account the fact that we count differently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number