"The 20th century ran from 1901 to 2000 inclusive" and other arguments for 0-indexing
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Century 20: 2000 to 2099 CE Century 1: 100 to 199 CE Century 0: 0 to 99 CE Century -0: -99 to -0 CE Century -1: -199 to -100 CE etc.
All of those annoying off-by-one errors introduced by subtracting BCE years from CE years? They are now off-by-two errors. You're welcome
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Or, as I prefer to call them, off-by-one-by-one errors
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I have been known to write "... + 1 + 1" in programs when accounting for multiple fencepost errors, just to avoid a magic number 2
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