She is right, using 0 index for physical stuff is stupid.
Your rulers start at 1? That sounds annoying.
Rulers measure cardinal quantities and not ordinal ones. There is no cardinal numbering scheme that starts at 1, all of them "start" at 0. For ordinal numbering schemes, the symbols are arbitrary anyway and you can start with whatever you want. It's equally valid to start with 1, 0, -1, A, or "aardvark". The only benefit to picking 1 as the start is to make it easier to count with your fingers while picking 0 lets you easily convert an ordinal quantity to a cardinal one.
I've seen a lot of rulers that actually don't have a mark at 0 and instead go right to the edge as 0. Typically they are worn down, being made of wood, so the accuracy of the first inch is dubious. To ensure the distance is correct, sliding the ruler down one unit is a good idea. So, my ruler starts at 0 but my measurements start at 1.
That's why decent rulers have a 0 and a margin:
It really depends on what you're measuring. Good luck measuring the distance from a corner if you can't get 0 to touch the end.
Tape measures are almost always designed with this in mind, so you can hook the end over an edge, or butt it up against something and the measurement will be accurate both ways, since the metal end can slide in or out by just the right amount.
Your job is to move apples from one bin to another. You pick up the first one and set it in the other bin, and say "zero."
There's another way to think about it which I actually use. Look in the empty bin and say "zero", then move an apple and say "one".
Works for floors!
Not on this side of the pond. We typically don't have a ground floor, that's just the first floor.
i wish the people making buildings around here knew that. some start at floor 3, others at 5. some start at 0. others at 2. every building has its own story. you need to understand the building before you can understand your position in it.
if a building is built into a hillside in the uk and has exits on floors 2 and 5, which would be the ground floor?
Blame the restaurant for having a table identified as zero
She was a lua girl, he was every other programming language guy. It was not ment to happen.
She liked embeddded apps
And he liked desktop displays
What more can I say?
And then he texts back 'where are you?' And then she texts back 'the first table' and he replies 'umm I'm here too. But I don't see you' confused she asks him ' table 0p?' And then '01*?' He says 'no, 00.' Releaved she says 'lol I am at table 01' he chuckles 'I am at 00, I'll go find you'
Later they get married and have kids. But relationship collapses and it ruins both of them and they cannot find the heart to love anyone again. Their children grow up broken and struggle through life. Some get arrested end up in prison, all of them repeatedly fall into a series of toxic relationships for the rest of their lives.
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they were never meant to be together, they would confuse the hell out of each other. Imagine they have two kids and she says pick kid[1] from the school, then what?
I think children go in dictionaries so you can look them to via name (key).
One kid's getting garbage collected either way
In the UK it's called a ground table.
So it was a spelling mistake? They're actually The Knights of The Ground Table!
This thread is a great example of why they don’t like to let (most) software developers talk to the customers.
Don't wanna state the obvious, but it looks like they still ended up staring at each other for the rest of the evening.
They have shown that they still love each other, so hope they can work with their one irreconcilable difference.
I love the idea that they're at two adjacent tables, each one staring at the other wondering why they hate them.
It’s for the best
That is why my restaurant will number tables by UUID.
A much better idea than when I tried to organize my restaurant with hashtables.
It was too much for the waitstaff, who had to reindex the floor plan every time they added or removed a plate.
On the plus side, delivering the right food was always O(1).
The real punch line is that in a cafe run by programmers, esoteric rules are in full force, but tables 0 and 1 are no where near each other.
Easy solution: Switch to table UUIDs.
Hey, if she thinks 1 is 1st index then you ~~dogged~~ dodged a bullet and deserve better.
Happy now all you English majors.
you dogged a bullet
😳
maybe she's a lua developer
1st table is not equal to table 01 because there no 0st table
0th (only first gets the -st ending; only second gets its end)
Wouldn't it be nice if documentation used the words index and offset consistently?
This would work better as Nth floor of a building
IS THIS Love Advice From the Great Duke of Hell??
(it's a webcomic, I loved the story)
I still mess this up for lists in Python...
No, NO! She said the FIRST table. Not table ONE. Why are women like this???? /s
Even if the table is correct the instruction needs to be more precise. Is it table header or table body and in which table column?
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