In article <4c6a8cf...@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, 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) Only if there's an emacs mode which can do the parenthesis matching correctly ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
