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Offset is an answer to the question "where does Nth memory location start from?". The answer is "after N-1 locations". It's the count of locations that need to be skipped by the reader, to reach the start of Nth memory location.

Book chapters and page numbers are not offsets.

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> Book chapter numbers are ordinal numbers

> Book chapters and page numbers are not offsets.

I don't know but I feel like you are making a point out of something arbitrary. When I listen to an audio book, everyone always says: "Chapter 1", not "the first chapter" so why is this important?

I think extreme attention to to arbitrary meaningless details is how we ended up with most rules in language that we are starting to collectively detest.

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