12 Aug
2011
12 Aug
'11
7:38 p.m.
Le 12/08/2011 10:14, Florian Paul Schmidt a écrit :
I'm a computer scientist, so of course I start
counting at 0 :D There's
no doubt about it.. If someone else does it differently they are dead
wrong ;D And by implication this means that I'm right. Ah, feels good to
be right..
This is what Dijkstra has to say about it:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html
Drink lots of water,
Flo
Quoted from the link above:
"And the moral of the story is that we had better regard —after all
those centuries!— zero as a most natural number."
Well. I promise. I'd count right now... and drink lots of water.
Rather:
0 January at zero o'clock
than 1 January at zero hour. :-)
Phil.