In article <8crg0effb...@mid.individual.net>, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Not always -- mathematicians use whatever starting index is > most convenient for the problem at hand. Which may be 0, 1, or something else. There are plenty of situations, for example, where you might want to use both positive and negative indices. Which work with Python lists, but not the way a mathematician would expect :-) In general, I've found, "Because that's the way they do it in math", to be an unreliable guide to, "How should we do it in a programming language?" It's often a reasonable place to start, but there are other considerations. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
