Eh... everyone has problems, but it doesn’t make sense to require all words meaning the same thing to be used everywhere— usually just one of them tends to be enough.
— Raul On Saturday, May 19, 2018, 'Bo Jacoby' via Chat <[email protected]> wrote: > In Roger's link, Dijkstra is referring to "the end of the first page" > rather than "the end of the zeroeth page", so Dijkstra was not taking his > own medicine. A solution to the problem is to distinguish between the > ordinal numbers (first, second, and so on) and cardinal numbers (zero, one, > and so on). The first ordinal number is "first", and the first cardinal > number is "zero". Cardinal number are for indexing, not for counting. > Thanks. Bo. > > Den 8:28 lørdag den 19. maj 2018 skrev Roger Hui < > [email protected]>: > > > Dijkstra advocated for 0 origin: EWD831: Why numbering should start at > zero > <http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF>. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
