Competition places start at 0
Competition places start at 0
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MATLAB: And I took that personally.
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Oh it shouldn't, seeing as how it's a scripting language and not actually for programming lol
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It doesn't have to be
https://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler.html
MATLAB can ruin all sorts of coding experiences, programming included
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Analysts using Julia and Mathematica are confused by this meme.
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But what about that one guy who writes absolutely brilliant VB?
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Ahem:
OPTION BASE 0
Bam, Qbasic AND Visual Basic has 0 based arrays.
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Depends on the version of VB. It seems VB .NET uses zero-based indexed arrays.
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As we used to say when I was a little kid: "Zero the hero, first the worst."
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Isn’t zero the same in base-2 as it is in base-10? Wouldn’t first place be 1, second place be 10, and third place 11?
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This is about indexes starting at 0, not about binary.
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Gotcha. I guess that’s the difference between programmer humor and computer architect humor.
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