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In article <1915@mips.mips.COM>, uday@mips.COM (Robert Redford) writes:
>       When someone  has zero apples, it means that he has no
>       apples. If there are three apples on the table, one would start
>       refering to them as first apple, second apple, third apple.
>       If there are 3 memory cells in the computer, one starts refering
>       to them as zeroth memory cell, first memory cell and second memory
>       cell.

The problem with this is that most people agree that memory cell 0 is the
`first' one.  But then we get the same off-by-one stupidity we have with
centuries, that memory cell 100 would be the `hundred-and-first' one.  So we
need to insert another ordinal.  Etymologically, it should go:
        `first', `second', `twoth', `third', ...
(I'd like to hear something better than `twoth'.)  The French don't even need a
new word:
        `premier', `second', `deuxieme', `troisieme', ...

But what do i know, i also think we should use hexadecimal...

--Joe