I don't want to be the one making the decision on this, in part because I won't be doing the bulk of the work, and I don't really have special expertise in the matter. It just seems that starting at 0 goes against virtually all of published mathematics on matrices.
I would feel better if someone could find a book on linear algebra with matrices starting at 0. I was unable to find one. Even Cormen et. al. _Algorithms_ (which is computer-science oriented) start at 1 in their chapter on matrices. What is the connection between words and matrices in the literature, and how does it handle the 0- vs. 1-based conversion? Is all or most of the literature on words 0-based? BTW it seems that the main computer algebra languages start at 1 (Mathematica, Matlab and R are mentioned): https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/86189/why-do-mathematica-list-indices-start-at-1 Norm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metamath" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to metamath+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/metamath/5d042284-fbdf-4b37-9bf0-593aed51b131n%40googlegroups.com.
