Re: 1-based indexing in Lua or the one without zero

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2018-04-22 18:48 GMT+02:00 Francisco Olarte <folarte@peoplecall.com>:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 5:43 PM, ag <aga.chatzimanikas@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>> So, lets say that we could talk with a just born human child, and asked him:
>>
>>   how old are you?
>>
>> Is not one, but is not zero either. He actually is zero and an offset.
>
> That question is not counting, is measuring. The thing is sufficiently
> old people normally reply in truncated years.

We actually have at least four ways of counting.

1. Fortran, Lua etc: from 1 to n.
2. C, Python etc: from 0 to n-1.
3. When pacing off a fixed length, or counting a time interval: from 0 to n.
4. When launching a rocket, detonating an explosive device etc: from n
backwards to 0.