On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > Remembering that I, J, K, L, M, and N were integer was trivial if you > came from a math background. And, of course, Fortran was all about > math, so that was natural. Those letters are commonly used for integers > in formulae. If I write $ x sub i $, anybody who knows math would > immediately assume that the range of x was reals and the range of i was > integers.
When I studied maths, x and y were reals, and i wasn't. But it wasn't integer either... :) Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
