Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:47:27 -0500, Steve Bertrand <steve_(_at_)_ibctech_(_dot_)_ca> wrote:Tim Judd wrote:Actually this is the 5th time --- computers start counting at zero.Wow, what a nice technicality you have found! If "computers start counting at zero", and if the system-installed kernel starts at zero, how many times has the user taken the bus?And how does the computer count more than 1 (which is 2) when he does only understand 0 and 1? :-)
Same way people from <intolerable ethnic slur redacted> count to
20 -- it takes its shoes off.
Matthew
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