a style question

[Dik T. Winter]

In article <2544 at cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
 > In <1990Oct4.152246.438 at nntp-server.caltech.edu>
 > manning at nntp-server.caltech.edu (Evan Marshall Manning) writes:
 > >And this is where the combination of a background in FORTRA[N|SH] and
 > >variables named "i" will bite you.  In C it's the (i+1)th element in
 > >the series.
 > Er, no.  Some series start with a zero-eth element.  They do, they
 > really do.  Not in Fortran, perhaps, but in mathematics, yes.
Er, no.  Two points actually.  The first is, also fortran knows about
arrays starting with index 0 (since 1978 at least).  The zero-th point
is, what do you mean with i-th element?  Element with index i or the i-th
element counting from the start with the first element, both are equally
valid?
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dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik at cwi.nl