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		goatlover on Aug 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do arrays start at 0? > If you count apples you implicitly start at zero and add 1 for each apple. If that's the case, then how did the ancient Greeks or Romans count before zero was an acceptable concept in their counting system?

unbalancedevh on Aug 24, 2022 [–]

By describing it in other ways, I imagine: "How many apples do you have?" "I don't have any."

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