On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/16/10 21:54, David Cournapeau wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Gregory Ewing >> <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >>>> On Aug 7, 2010, at 9:14 PM, John Nagle wrote: >>>> >>>>> The languages which have real multidimensional arrays, rather >>>>> than arrays of arrays, tend to use 1-based subscripts. That >>>>> reflects standard practice in mathematics. >>> >>> Not always -- mathematicians use whatever starting index is >>> most convenient for the problem at hand. >> >> Yes, there are many engineering fields where index starts at 0. Partly >> for the reason you have stated concerning polynomials, especially >> since this extend to series, which are pervasive in numerical >> computing. In linear algebra, though, I remember to have always noted >> matrices indexes in the [1,n] range, not [0,n-1]. > > I'm sure some would prefer to denote it as [0, n)
Count me in on that, that'd be great. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
