PaweKraszewski wrote:
>> The pebble in the Ruby shoe is the counter-intuitive use of indexing of
>> elements of arrays, strings, etc., from 0 to n-1 instead of the more
>> natural 1 to n.   Like prisoners who have got used to their chains, the
> 
> I grew up with 0-based arrays. 1-based ones look unnatural to me. That's the
> truth, as for me.
> 
> The worst nightmare for me was CHS addressing on disks - Cylinders are
> 0-based, Heads are 0-based, but Sectors are 1-based. Hell on earth.

On many disks, there is (or used to be) a sector #0 that is not used for 
data; instead, it is used to record information about bad sectors, or 
similar things.
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John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
   -- Charles Williams.  "Judgement at Chelmsford"