I'm going to pile on here. LIke Mario, Benoit, Alexander, and Dijkstra, we should leave Word indexing as starting from 0.
It'd be a big change, with a lot of work, for no big benefit. I haven't done a serious literature search, but I expect that the literature will be inconsistent (just like it's inconsistent with the natural numbers). If anything, I think there's been an increasing move towards 0-start over 1-start over the last 100 years. Modulo is more inconvenient for 1-starting, too. Let's leave Word as 0-starting (unchanged). --- David A. Wheeler -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metamath" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/metamath/E1jSjyn-0004EP-Rt%40rmmprod06.runbox.
