Comment by sib
2 years ago
How many days are between Sunday and Saturday of this week (I live in a place where weeks are generally seen to start on Sunday and end on Saturday)?
Five, right? Would you say seven?
Guess I must be a "math folk."
2 years ago
How many days are between Sunday and Saturday of this week (I live in a place where weeks are generally seen to start on Sunday and end on Saturday)?
Five, right? Would you say seven?
Guess I must be a "math folk."
No, I would say 6.
How many days are there between today and tomorrow?
By definition, there is exactly 1 (one) day. That's what tomorrow means :)
Your math would say zero.
Which day is between today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday)?
There are no days between today and tomorrow. No things _between_ this thing and the next thing.
I find your mathematics pretty confusing.
In most contexts for time differences, a "day" is a time interval (24 hours) instead of a "concrete thing".
If my job contract says that there has to be "one day between" my resignation letter and my handing back my badge, then it means I can resign on Monday and give back the badge on Tuesday (the next day ; "one day after" ; because "one day" has elapsed). Not Monday/Wednesday. Otherwise "zero days between" these events would mean Monday/Tuesday (with your math) and Monday/Monday is also zero?
But I guess we're just rehashing the old argument on whether indexes should start at zero.