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Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by phkahler on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @01:08PM (#18980770)
>> A multi-floor building with ground floor + 3 floors can even named "3rd-storey building" in some countries

I think you just refuted your own previous assertion that 1-indexing is universal in all other aspects of life.

Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by coldtea on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @01:48PM (#18981283)
Not sure what you mean. There are 3 floors (as europeans define a floor, ie. anything ABOVE what americans call ground floor) and are named floor 1, floor 2 and floor 3.

So, no 0-based indexing here.

We call the house a "3-storey house" not because we zero index, but because the cardinality of it's floors (as europeans define a floor) is 3. In "3-storey building" for Europeans, 3 is the "length", not the last index.