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   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   Daniel70  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   No. An array is a structure used in programming to manage a list of   
   variables. The list is indexed by an integer which either starts at 0 or 1   
   depending on the programming language.   
      
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