Does anybody know what it is called when a system uses 0 to
specify the first occurence of something (instead of 1)? For example:
“Because UNIX is a <terminology_here> system, the first engine in the application is listed as “engine 0” in the output.”
I mean – I know we use it all the time, but what is this called???
Sign me totally puzzled.
– Baglady
How about “Because UNIX uses offsets instead of ordinals. . .”
I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, but in programming, arrays that start with 0 rather than 1 are often just referred to as being ‘zero-based’.
SDMB – don’t you just love it! Thanks folks for the uber-quick response!!!
Parabola!
Hypotenuse!
Ummm, L’Hospital’s Rule?
Differentiable?
oh, never mind.
You’re talking about the difference between integers “0…1…2…3” and counting numbers “1…2…3…4”
This is what my 7th grade algebra teacher taught.