Don't forget Fortran arrays, which have user-configurable ordering (!) but by default start with 1.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 11:11 PM David A. Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > I think there has been a slow march from one-based indexing to zero based > indexing in computing. > > Many systems designed two decades ago supported one based indexing, such > as R and matlab/octave. But newer systems are pretty much uniformly > zero-based. > > I realize that abstract mathematics is not the same as computing, but they > do influence each other. > > It seems that we can often hide the issue of whether or not matrices are > zero based or one based. Perhaps that would be the best course. > --- David A.Wheeler -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/metamath/CAFXXJStkUXPQhH4GbfxO0S6Rpppgk%2BAd9FzdrVbw5Z1bHO0UYg%40mail.gmail.com.
