Zero [was Re: What is considered an "advanced" topic in Python?]

[Dave Farrance]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

>On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 07:36 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
>> However, I constantly run into engineers who don't understand what
>> zero means.
>
>Okay, I'll bite.
>
>What does zero mean, and how do engineers misunderstand it?

There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation,
naming things, and off-by-one errors.