At 09:06 2009-12-01, Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
>Similarly Europeans start numbering at 1 for birthdays so that on the day
>one is born, he is one-year old. We in the U.S. are more logical and start
>numbering at 0 for birthdays. Works the same way in computer addressing
>where numbering usually starts at 0 and one calculates the offset from
>there.
Europeans start the lifetime at about the start of
manufacturing (gleam in father's eye), and NAers start when
manufacturing is complete (scream in mother's throat). Since there
is no warranty on humans, it is moot.
We do not start at zero. We say some units. A child is never
zero, but four months old or two weeks old or three days old or, if
backed into a corner, newborn, but never zero.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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