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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1st would be 'B', first is 'A'

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you want to be both wrong and confusing

If you want to use correct English and be clear don't use ordinals: Say "index 0, index 1" etc

Save ordinals for contexts without indices: the first time through this loop, the last record"