There is no evidence that it comes from Portuguese. It most likely comes from Korean. Wind-on-the-panes is bullshitting (convincingly!)
jsomae
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Moreso, I like to be able to have control of the game. If I play a game with my friends that I like, I don't want the game to be changed into something else (live service) so I can't come back and play the version we once did.
I think most aphantasiacs can't hear their own thoughts, but I might be wrong.
Ah, I see. You're advocating for naming the intervals (0, 1) and (-1,0) by rounding toward zero rather than away from zero. I would advocate for rounding toward the lesser value: (-1, 0) -> "-1" and (0,1) -> "0"
floating point arithmetic on computers does suffer the existence of a negative zero. But it's generally considered an unfortunate consequence of IEEE754.
Your explanation works equally well for any integer though. You could say the same of 1.
I think you're saying that it's a fencepost issue. But even for personal ages this doesn't check out: for a year after you are born, your age is "0." A one-year-old baby is in the following year.
Sucks they were able to find you this way. That's why I always use a pseudonym.
Scary to think what will happen when AI can automate that.
The only positional numbering system I use daily (base 10) has only one zero. What system are you talking about?
This explanation is unclear to me. Why do we choose the later of the two endpoints of the year for (0, 1) but the earlier of the two for (-1, 0)?
Oh I see. Sure, historically it makes sense that years have been ordinal numbers. But in the modern era with all our math and computational knowledge, it is not convenient anymore. It means off-by-one errors are easy to commit when comparing BC and AD years.
This is why programming languages all index from 0 rather than 1 (knuth and lua be damned)