Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 16, 2006 09:37 PM
For once, I may agree with a strange posting...
Supporting proof by example: Zero is in fact, a beautiful Norwegian Forest cat who adopted my wife and me several years ago, and who stretches out to cover much of my free desk space when I am working at home. Right now, in fact...
So there is at least one Zero that is not a number.
Nevermind I don't agree.
Zero is not only a number, it's a great place to start counting things. Kernighan and Ritchie set the standard for numbering, beginning K&R with Chapter zero to exemplify the fact that C language arrays begin counting with element [0]. That concept unified pointer arithmetic and array element access. FORTRAM counted arrays beginning with element [1], which caused all sorts of confusion in address computation.
It seems to me that Stallman's "riff" on K&R is a nice bit of geek humor...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 16, 2006 09:37 PMSupporting proof by example: Zero is in fact, a beautiful Norwegian Forest cat who adopted my wife and me several years ago, and who stretches out to cover much of my free desk space when I am working at home. Right now, in fact...
So there is at least one Zero that is not a number.
Nevermind I don't agree.
Zero is not only a number, it's a great place to start counting things. Kernighan and Ritchie set the standard for numbering, beginning K&R with Chapter zero to exemplify the fact that C language arrays begin counting with element [0]. That concept unified pointer arithmetic and array element access. FORTRAM counted arrays beginning with element [1], which caused all sorts of confusion in address computation.
It seems to me that Stallman's "riff" on K&R is a nice bit of geek humor...
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