On Mon, 11 May 2015, Hongyi Zhao wrote:

> 0-499 specifies the first 500 bytes
>
> I just wondered why not use 1, instead of 0, as the beginning counter of the
> bytes number of a file?

Primarly, because that's how HTTP's range: header works.

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