I think that's the case only if we're stuck in a programming language like Matlab. Usually we would get v[0] = t0, ..., v[n] = tn. Mathematicians are perfectl

I think that's the case only if we're stuck in a programming language like Matlab. Usually we would get v[0] = t0, ..., v[n] = tn. Mathematicians are perfectly happy starting with zero, even for things like matrix indices, when it makes sense.