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> there will be a sensible way to define the zero/empty case. This is often a good test of whether you have a uniform concept that works for all n without corn
by jhgb 6y ago
> there will be a sensible way to define the zero/empty case. This is often a good test of whether you have a uniform concept that works for all n without corner cases.
And so, begun the array indexing war has.
- Koshkin 6y agoA polynomial always includes a member (monomial) with the power zero. It seems natural, therefore, to index the coefficients correspondingly. In other situations, 1 may be the more natural starting index.