Yes, you're quite right about that. Which would explain
why I scrapped my initial (zeroth?) answer for one that
tried to coney a sense of delight in Henry's notation
as a tool of communication (as opposed to being perfectly
accurate).
Cheers,
-Dan
On 17 Dec 2011, at 13:50, Bo Jacoby wrote:
> That does not make the first problem 'problem 0'. Henry's problems are items,
> not in-betweens.
>
>
>
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>> Fra: Dan T. Abell <dab...@txcorp.com>
>> Til: Programming forum <programming@jsoftware.com>
>> Sendt: 21:21 lørdag den 17. december 2011
>> Emne: Re: [Jprogramming] J Midterm exam 2011
>>
>> Ahhh, yes. But what a great way to emphasise that we
>> begin at zero. We begin our first trip about the sun at
>> age zero. Before the baker add that first donut, the box
>> contains zero donuts. ...
>>
>> We programmers train ourselves (and future programmers)
>> to count the jumps, use indices to label the in-betweens
>> (including that pesky leading "in-between" we call '0'),
>> and then work to catch all our off-by-one errors.
>>
>> -Dan
>> :-P
>>
>> On 17 Dec 2011, at 12:54, Bo Jacoby wrote:
>>
>>> when kids count they still say: one two three
>>
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