XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10
From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org
On 13/10/2025 2:56 am, Chris wrote:
> 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.
>
Ah!! O.K., beyond my knowledge .... so I'll try to pull my head in!! ;-(
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