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What you've said isn't surprising. The problem isn't whether 0 or 1 are "right" or not, it's the inconsistency. It makes transcribing something from a textbook
by ogogmad 4y ago
What you've said isn't surprising.
The problem isn't whether 0 or 1 are "right" or not, it's the inconsistency. It makes transcribing something from a textbook harder, because the indexing logic in a textbook algorithm can get quite intricate. It's even worse if they use slices like M[i:j,m:n].
Indexing from 1 is the standard in many areas, going back many decades. SWEs have adopted a different convention.
- enriquto 4y agobut this depends a lot on the particular formula. For example, if you use discrete Furier transforms, all formulas are natural with 0-indexing, but weird with 1-indexing. In general, when the indices of an array are to be interpreted as modulo N, you want them to be 0, 1, ..., N-1 It is inevitable to have to use both conventions if you do varied math stuff. Thus, you will never be happy.
- ethbr0 4y ago(Obligatory) There are only 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors