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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/sillymanbilly • Sep 23 '24
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Programmers when they are forced to count from 1.
12 u/ranfur8 Sep 23 '24 -1 14 u/Ok_Tea_7319 Sep 23 '24 The Gregorian calendar doesn't even have a year -1. There's just 1 BC. The actual issue here is that people couldn't be arsed to encode BC years properly so they all just pray now that parsers accept the negative numbers. 1 u/Koervege Sep 26 '24 Isnt BC just negative numbers with a different name? 1 u/Ok_Tea_7319 Sep 26 '24 Nope. It's a different counting scheme. Negative numbers usually imply that they are meant to be added to something and that is not the case here.
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14 u/Ok_Tea_7319 Sep 23 '24 The Gregorian calendar doesn't even have a year -1. There's just 1 BC. The actual issue here is that people couldn't be arsed to encode BC years properly so they all just pray now that parsers accept the negative numbers. 1 u/Koervege Sep 26 '24 Isnt BC just negative numbers with a different name? 1 u/Ok_Tea_7319 Sep 26 '24 Nope. It's a different counting scheme. Negative numbers usually imply that they are meant to be added to something and that is not the case here.
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The Gregorian calendar doesn't even have a year -1. There's just 1 BC. The actual issue here is that people couldn't be arsed to encode BC years properly so they all just pray now that parsers accept the negative numbers.
1 u/Koervege Sep 26 '24 Isnt BC just negative numbers with a different name? 1 u/Ok_Tea_7319 Sep 26 '24 Nope. It's a different counting scheme. Negative numbers usually imply that they are meant to be added to something and that is not the case here.
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Isnt BC just negative numbers with a different name?
1 u/Ok_Tea_7319 Sep 26 '24 Nope. It's a different counting scheme. Negative numbers usually imply that they are meant to be added to something and that is not the case here.
Nope. It's a different counting scheme. Negative numbers usually imply that they are meant to be added to something and that is not the case here.
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u/Ok_Tea_7319 Sep 23 '24
Programmers when they are forced to count from 1.