Engineers count from zero

Posted Jan 9, 2020 9:13 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Engineers count from zero by schessman
Parent article: LWN's 2020 vision

Personal bias does not over-ride reality.

-4, -3, -2, -1, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...

Much as our counting system DOES include zero, the calendar pre-dates its "invention" in about 1000 AD.

Cheers,
Wol