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Yes, I also had found that paper to be surprisingly and disappointedly hand wavey. "Don't meet your heroes" type of thing. Math does not care about pointer arit
by andromaton 3y ago
Yes, I also had found that paper to be surprisingly and disappointedly hand wavey. "Don't meet your heroes" type of thing. Math does not care about pointer arithmetic and i in summation and induction starts at 1. Same in Julia. It's an higher level accommodation to machine code primitives, which are indeed less gate expensive if indexes start at zero.
- kevinventullo 3y agoIn addition to code, I think 0-indexing is also a nice convention for floor numbering. That way the Nth floor is N floors up from the ground level. This is already how basement levels work.
- andromaton 3y agoI agree. Touche!
- andromaton 3y agoThis is not a 6-hour slow risposte; it's my 6 hour anti procrastinate filter I swear. Anyway, just like all animals of habit, I immediately I agreed with floor zero because I come from a place where the lowest floor is not floor 1 (unlike the US). However, I can see somebody saying floor is the height of the ceiling, so floor 1 = 10 feet; floor 0 (underground) 0 feet. One thing we can all agree is that the calendar, without a zero, it's pretty bad.
- goto11 3y agoIf we admit negative numbers for basements, then were are not using the natural numbers anymore. This is a completely different question since the integers does not have a beginning.
- Yizahi 3y ago0-based floor numbering is infuriating. Telling someone that you live on the third floor which is actually numbered 2 is honestly dumb. I had to emigrate from the 1-based floor country a year ago and first floor numbered 0 is still throwing me off sometimes. And every single time I want to raise attention to a window somewhere.
- threatofrain 3y agoI’m not sure about this. I’ve seen more index from 0 for induction and summation in Analysis.