This is very funny. Did you know that centuries ago, they didn't start counting by counting the next item as one? Centuries ago they started counting by counting the first item as one. This has confused a lot of people who read histories and old biographies and such. This is the exact confusion that is being exhibited in this thread the OP posted. Do you count one day as the day you are on, or as the gap between the day you are on and the next day? Count the things themselves, or the spaces between the things? It amusing to read the two points of view butting against one another.
This (the Josh in the link) is a troll. I'd like a source on your post too because "Centuries ago they started counting by counting the first item as one." That's how counting is done now too. Even stop watches, which start at 00:00:00.000, the first "thing" (unit of time) is still counted and still counted as 1, 00:00:00.001 when it's elapsed. The confusion here (submission) isn't actual confusion. It's just a troll and people being retarded.
The troll is the idea that you don't get to 1 until you have gotten to the second item in a set. Which is neither correct nor incorrect. The problem is that in a hypothetical counting of "time" (day in a week) the moment you get to the second item, the second item has also finished as you can't hypothetically pass a day's worth of time to count that day.
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