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They hadn't yet decided whether to count from 0 or from 1.
by _kst_ 5mo ago
They hadn't yet decided whether to count from 0 or from 1.
- cwmma 5mo agoSurprisingly this comes up more then you'd think, for instance in Ancient Rome, tomorrow is two days away so all the dates are off by one from what you'd think it was. They mainly count down and it goes, 5, 4, 3, day before, day.
- codebaobab 5mo agoI noticed that when I read Tom Holland's new translation of The Lives of the Caesars. All the dates were in the form "N days before Kalends/Ides".
- mcswell 5mo agoI think it comes up in the Gospels, too, e.g. "on the third day" after the resurrection.
- kps 5mo ago“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.” — Stan Kelly-Bootle (first person to obtain a postgraduate degree in computer science)