On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 2:22 PM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Chris Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
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>
> I wonder if you could ask your colleagues how they feel about using a
> zero-based system instead of a one-based one (i.e., in this context,
> Sn = {0, 1, 2, ..., n - 1} instead of {1, 2, ..., n}). Because this is
> once instance where it's usually better to stick with Python
> conventions over math conventions.
I don't think that is a big problem, as long as it is made clear in
the docs that
everything is 0 based, following normal Python conventions.
>
> Personally, I'm somewhat skeptical that it will "just work" to say,
> "if you want to use a one-based system, just use Sn+1 and pretend the
> first element isn't there".
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
>>
>> What Aleksander did was great. The algorithms can be very hard to
>> understand correctly.
>> There is a lot of good functionality now. That is definitely the hard part.
>>
>> I hope this interface issue is not too hard to correct.
>>
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