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From: mj@myrias.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: 0-based/1-based arrays
Message-ID: <575@myrias.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 16:51:17 GMT
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Reply-To: mj@myriasa.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann)
Organization: Myrias Research Corporation
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Keywords: arrays one zero ordinals


    Long, long time before any computers were invented - even before
times were Turing was born - there was a mathematician and logician
with a name of Gottlieb Frege.  He was deeply convinced that we should
always start counts from 0 and was trying hard to pass that idea to
everybody else.  ( I think that he had some valid points.  Remember
that humanity managed to loose one whole year - year 0. :-) )
An apocryphic story claims, that once he had a surgery and was asked
to count loudly, when given anesthetic.  And he was counting:
   "ZERO, one, two, three...."

   Michal Jaegermann
   Myrias Research Corporation
   Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
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