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Artificial languages for instructing computers to do steps of computation in order to complete tasks. They allow programmers to communicate with computers.

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What is the origin of counting from zero in programming languages?

Trying a short answer. Counting from zero is popular not just in programming languages but in mathematics more generally speaking. Counting is much older than the zero. Since the zero and positional …
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