XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 12/10/2025 10:38 pm, MikeS wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Oh!! Are you talking about 2^0, 2^1, 2^2, etc?? Is that all?? Just never   
   heard of it expressed that way.   
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   Daniel70   
      
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