[linux-audio-user] midi note numbers

[Chuck Martin]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:10:26PM +0200, Christoph Eckert ce-at-christeck.de |LAU| wrote:
> > Computers count from zero.  Always have, always will.
> 
> yes, of course, I know.
> 
> But it is possible to hide this in user interfaces. IMHO the machines 
> have to serve the humans, not the other way around.
> 
> How many mails are you reading right now, 0 or 1 ;-) ?

That doesn't matter.  It's the difference between cardinal and ordinal
numbers.  Even in computers, cardinal numbers (those designating a
quantity) use 0 for none and 1 for, well, 1.  Ordinal numbers (those
that number things sequentially) always begin at 0 for the first item,
as far as the computer is concerned.

Chuck