tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 03 06:14:24 1996
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Re: paghDIch
- From: [email protected] (Matt Gomes)
- Subject: Re: paghDIch
- Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 06:12:50 -0700
SaghItlhneS:
: 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
Off topic... but just to throw a little caution on the wind...
I think it's misleading to say "computers count from 0". Computers do
NOT count from 0... programing languages such as C may start their
arrays at 0, but, on the otherhand, Java does not...
Okay.. enough off topic stuff... just picking nits...
-majIq