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Article #5354Re: 0-based/1-based arrays
From: Michal Jaegermann
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 16:51
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 16:51
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Long, long time before any computers were invented - even before
times were Turing was born - there was a mathematician and logician
with a name of Gottlieb Frege. He was deeply convinced that we should
always start counts from 0 and was trying hard to pass that idea to
everybody else. ( I think that he had some valid points. Remember
that humanity managed to loose one whole year - year 0. :-) )
An apocryphic story claims, that once he had a surgery and was asked
to count loudly, when given anesthetic. And he was counting:
"ZERO, one, two, three...."
Michal Jaegermann
Myrias Research Corporation
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!att-ih!alberta!myrias!mj From: mj@myrias.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: 0-based/1-based arrays Message-ID: <575@myrias.UUCP> Date: 22 Mar 88 16:51:17 GMT References: <25739@cca.CCA.COM> <1106@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <25831@cca.CCA.COM> Reply-To: mj@myriasa.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann) Organization: Myrias Research Corporation Lines: 15 Keywords: arrays one zero ordinals