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Interesting that you mention polynomials, as the constant term in them is gennerally given the subscript 0. In fact, it sounds like you want some form of 1 base

Interesting that you mention polynomials, as the constant term in them is gennerally given the subscript 0. In fact, it sounds like you want some form of 1 based indexing, where constant polynomials are degree 1, linear degree 2, etc.

Aardwolf 8y ago
No, I don't want form of 1 based indexing at all :) an array with elements at index 0,1,2,3 has size 4
- gizmo686 8y ago
  And the degree on a polynomial means the highest index of a non-0 coefficient. I don't see how you can view calling a linear polynomial degree 2 an example of 0 based index.
  - renox 8y ago
    Easy: the constant part of the polynomial is x^0.