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Not that I know of. Normal people and programmers do not count the same way. | last | | rank | count ------+------+------- sheep | 2 |

• jacquesm 17y ago
  Programmers are pretty normal people :) When counting sheep in a field I'll count 1 sheep, 2 sheep etc. When counting variables I'll say one variable, two variables and so on. No difference there. When placing items in an array I say this value goes in to slot '0', this will go into slot '1'. The slots are labelled with their index. And I will say there are now two values stored in the array, one at 'position' 0 and one at 'position' 1. I think the whole problem disappears when you think of 'rank' as labels and count as the actual number of elements. The first sheep is just a label you stick on a sheep to identify it, that makes it different from the other sheep.