XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: MikeS@fred.com   
      
   On 12/10/2025 11:57, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 10/10/2025 11:14 pm, Chris wrote:   
   >> J. P. Gilliver  wrote:   
   >>> On 2025/10/10 0:34:47, JJ wrote:   
   >>>> On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 11:48:06 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>>>> On 2025/10/8 9:35:15, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Throw it out from the second or higher floor.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Is that a UK second or a US second?>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Wait, what? Aren't both the same?   
   >>>   
   >>> Not when it comes to floors (storeys)! In British English, the ground   
   >>> floor is called the ground floor, and the first floor is upstairs (with   
   >>> the second floor, if there is one, above that, and so on); in American   
   >>> English, the ground floor is the first floor, upstairs is the second   
   >>> floor, and so on.   
   >>   
   >> dragging ourselves a little more on-topic; in computing terms this is the   
   >> difference between 0-based and 1-based indexing. C-based languages always   
   >> use 0-based indexing whereas others (like R, S) use 1-based.   
   >>   
   > "C-based languages" I can live with, although I've never studies it/them   
   > ... but "0-based" and "1-based"??   
      
   Think of fields in an array. The first field may be given the index 0 or 1.   
      
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