Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.