On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:09:55PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is this one of the wierd count things where 0 actually means 1 (as in
> single processor) and 1 actually means 2 (as in dual processors)??

This is actually an artifact of C, which uses zero-based arrays instead
of reserving the first slot for a length byte (e.g. Pascal). This is
what gives rise to the common off-by-one errors in low- and mid-level
languages.

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