Measuring tools started from 0 way before the digital era

that’s true, but when you’re measuring something the value you get is a cardinal, not an ordinal. I agree that we have been using 0 as a cardinal for a long time. however, we’ve been using 0 as an ordinal only since 1950s

people think of time as a sequence of events, hence there’s 1st (1 o’clock), 2nd (2 o’clock) and so on until the 12th (12 o’clock)

this, but also, while the number 0 to denote absence of something has been the norm for some time, counting from zero wasn’t much of a thing before the digital era

edit: more to support my theory, before the 1950s (the advent of computing) zero wasn’t really used as an ordinal at all

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=zeroth%2C0th&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=0&case_insensitive=true

mfw I’m a trained warlock:

!crows@lemmy.ml

thanks for the caption on the image, I lowkey didn’t know what I was looking at

I love this

nah actually cutting grass is a bit cringe. rare scottish L

this implies that woke things can be categorised into nonwoke categories such that no category is empty

switching to bupropion in a few days myself (changing my antidepressants for the 3rd time already), wish me luck!

I’ve seen tankies defending trump so I’ll believe anything

can’t tell if it’s a tankie take or a fascist take… not that any option makes it less terrible

thanks, that’s what I needed!

here’s a direct link for the lazy: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/

do you know how to download all of my reddit history for personal use? redacting is a good idea, but I want to keep it available to myself in case I need to look up something in there

where on reddit can I find lots of Luigi content? I’m interested in having my 7yr old account banned

i’m new to lemmy, do they mean the grad, the dot ml and the hexbear instances or something? or am I completely missing the context?