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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (7 children)

The simple difference between ordinal and cardinal numbering.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This makes pointer arithmetic much easier, but pointing arithmetic much harder.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For people that start at 1: what do you call the basement floors?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I remember it by pretending that the Brits require kindergarten and Americans don't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The 0 floor?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (18 children)
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