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Re:CSS grid garden by learc83 on Monday December 24, 2018 @09:16PM (#18755455)
There are good reasons to start counting at 0 beyond convention. Dijkstra wrote a small essay on the topic in 1982 called "Why numbering should start at zero."

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...

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Re:CSS grid garden by pjmlp on Monday December 24, 2018 @10:45PM (#18755769)
As someone that started programming in languages that count from 1, I kind of disagree with that essay.

Specially when dealing with Algol derived languages, where the indexes can be specified in a flexible way.

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