1 Aug
2001
1 Aug
'01
10:53 a.m.
Sometime on Jul 31, Manish Jethani assembled some asciibets to say:
87654321
01111111 = 127 = backspace ^ That's the 7th bit? The lowest is 0th, is it?
Yup. Welcome to the wholesome world of computer scientists. Whole numbers start with zero. Counting starts with zero. Indices start with zero. Computers understand zero.
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