Re: your mail
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- Subject: Re: your mail
- From: Tony Finch <dot@...>
- Date: 2007年10月29日 20:26:43 +0000
On 2007年10月28日, Duck wrote:
>
> Hmmm. A "pun of contradiction" there. Natural use of arrays means to start at
> one, of course. (Since natural numbers do.)
There's no agreement about whether 0 is a natural number - see Mathworld
or Wikipedia. The convention you use depends on the field you are working
in. CS prefers to include 0, apart from a few aberrant programming
languages like Lua :-)
Tony.
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