On 2/22/06, Mike McCarty mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:58 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
However, since computers always start counting with 0 it was natural for programming languages to do the same. This is just one example of how that shows to the users.
More like programmers never really put any good thought into what they were doing. The number of times I recall having to fix up someone's FOR A = 0 TO 10 sort of things so they'd count the right number of times...
How many fingers am I holding up...?
Eight, and two thumbs. But there are only nine gaps between them...
Fence post error!
Mike
Are thumbs not fingers? I have a broken one now- so would it be inacurate to say that I had broken a finger?
By the way, if you hold one hand in front of the other, you can hold up ten fingers with only eight gaps between them!
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