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Maths is zero-based. I'm not sure why you think that numbers start with one; every formulation of the integers in modern maths starts with zero.
by DonbunEf7 9y ago
Maths is zero-based. I'm not sure why you think that numbers start with one; every formulation of the integers in modern maths starts with zero.
- peatmoss 9y agoMatrices, common in statistics because of applications of linear algebra, have long maintained the convention of i,j indexes starting with one.
- dnautics 9y agoIt's not. Zero based is wise for offsets (CS) and fields where you have a zero element, and a few corner cases like factorial, but by and large any time you're enumerating an order over a nonempty set you start with one in math, because, max(indices) = |set|