Or, we could use, say, Perl and do it in an associative array like so

@years_so_far{map{'0.'.$_;}(0..8)} = ('womb') x 9;
$years_so_far{'0.a'} = 'milk';
$years_so_far{'0.f'} = 'beginning solids';

  and so on ;-) and teach fractional hex while we're at it.

But, since you're "1" 3 months after birth though, that's why we need fractional years ;-)

But there's an offset too ;-) They're one year old at three months after birth. That's why we need fractional years too :-D

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I liked the idea of teaching "number lines" by height above the ground. Dig a hole it's negative. Stack blocks above it's positive. The ground is 0.

When you're born you're 9 months old. Maybe we should start with fractional years :-)

No sane programmers use the G word :-)

This is quite easy to do with Perl. A box with nothing in it has an undefined value. A box with something in it - even it's 0 or empty string has a defined value.

No I think he nailed it right there :-)

Not to mention, that self-modifying assembly code needs to know where it is right now (0-base) and how many bytes further on to write the new instructions. The pointer arithmetic there has nothing to do with arrays but the exact same principle applies.

They're really *7* years old. We started counting at 0 remember ;-)

Looks like I'll be locked out of most web sites that use Captcha if they start using these. I can't make head or tail of them either!

By' that wer't nowt. When I were't lad we toggled in th'instructions into't front panel. ;-)

And then it's good for you again - and then it's bad for you again...

Like brown bread or chocolate or any number of other things.

A recent study also showed it was good for being an anti-oxidant and was good for you.

Researchers really ought to talk to one another...

This is not Amazon's job to enforce. If sales tax is due then it is up to the consumer to declare it on their return.