"Daniel 'Dang' Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > But the factorial example on the wiki has a defect. It incorrectly > calculates factorial(0) as 0, when it should be 1.
This is a matter of definition, and definitions apparently differ. fact(0) == 0 is a backward projection from the definition f(1) = f(2) = 1 in 1-based systems, which is the context for the rabbit problem in which the first year is year 1, not year 0. Disagreement is not defect. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
