Look up: Zeroth

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   zeroth
   [adj] - preceding even the first
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   zeroth
   (jargon) First. Since zero is the lowest value of an unsigned binary integer, which is one of the most fundamental types in programming and hardware design, it is often natural to count from zero rather than one, especially when the integer is actually an index, as in hardware addressing or C and Lisp's 0-based indexing of arrays. Hackers and compu...
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   zeroth
   an(optimization)method which does not use derivatives(gradient information) Category: Statistics
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   Zeroth
   Definition (keystage 3) Sometimes, when we are counting the elements in a set, it makes sense to start counting at zero rather than one. In this case we would have an element which was called the zeroth element.
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   zeroth
   adjective preceding even the first
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   Zeroth
   The `zeroth` item is the initial item of a zero-based sequence (that is, a sequence which is numbered beginning from zero rather than one), such as the non-negative integers (see natural number). This kind of numbering is common in array references in computer systems, so hackers, computer scientists and computer geeks often use `zeroth` where others might use `first`, and so forth. Although there is logical reasoning for this (explained below) ...
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