Too bad they didn’t keep their very own system of measurement which is so much more convenient than the internationally recognized and simple system… Not looking in anybody’s direction
babies are considered a year old on the day they’re born
Is there any useful idea behind this? That sounds completely dumb.
It’s just semantics. When you are born, you are in your first year of life, not your zeroth year of life. After a full year, you are one year old. Grammar varies from language to language, and sometimes one feels more natural.
Imagine everyone in English said “I’m in my 32nd year” instead of “I’m 31 years old.” Now you meet a foreigner who says the opposite. Translation issues abound!
When you are born, you are in your first year of life, not your zeroth year of life.
There are one type of person in this world. Those that understand arrays, and those that don’t.
Well, you could have an array starting at zero, some old languages or pseudo code languages do that.
