Epoch 1 was 50 BTC per block, epoch 2 was 25, epoch 3 was 12.5, etc.
How did epoch 4 skip down to 3.125? What happened to 6.25?
Silly humans Epoch 0 was 50BTC
Nonsense. It's like centuries.
Years 1 to 999 were the 1st century. Years 2000 to 2024 (so far) is the 21st century.
There was no zeroth century.
About Epoch 0 being the first one, it's a computer programming thing. Array indexing always starts at zero. Of course, a programmer can take care of this for aesthetic reasons, and shift things by 1 to make the counter more human-friendly, but the Bitcoin code is meant to be very lean and pure, as it should be, so everything is written in vanilla C++ code.