In Roger's link, Dijkstra is referring to "the end of the first page" rather
than "the end of the zeroeth page", so Dijkstra was not taking his own
medicine. A solution to the problem is to distinguish between the ordinal
numbers (first, second, and so on) and cardinal numbers (zero, one, and so on).
The first ordinal number is "first", and the first cardinal number is "zero".
Cardinal number are for indexing, not for counting.
Thanks. Bo.
Den 8:28 lørdag den 19. maj 2018 skrev Roger Hui
<[email protected]>:
Dijkstra advocated for 0 origin: EWD831: Why numbering should start at zero
<http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF>.
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