tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 03 02:38:13 1996
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Re: paghDIch
- From: Jarno Peschier <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: paghDIch
- Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 11:38:02 +0200 (METDST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "David Barron" at May 2, 96 09:59:08 am
[Quoting David Barron]
>
> > So what's wrong with paghDIch ?
> >
> > Never heard of "Newton's zero th Law of thermodynamics" ?
> > Works for me !
>
> I have to agree.
> It has been a few years but in some of my old math classes
> we were raising 10 to the zero-th {paghDIch} power.
Another use of paghDIch: in computer science. Since computers count
from 0 up to n-1 (and not from 1 to n) you see the zero-th "something"
mentioned a lot in descriptions of new algorithms and the like. Often
this is with a subscript of 0 in stead of writing "zeroth" or
something, but paghDIch would be perfect there if you wanted to
describe something like that, in stead of using a rule of thumb to
call it the first (thus actually "being off" 1 in every subscripted
element you name)..
Qapla'
peSHIr
P.S. Yes, I study computer science. ;-)
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