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0 pointsexDM6910y ago0 comments

From the comments section of that G+ post I found this Dijkstra essay with really good arguments for zero-based indexing.

Not only does it have sound mathematical reasoning but also some anecdotal evidence of problems caused by one-based indexing in programming languages.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF

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baldfat10y ago

For statistics 1 based is much cleaner and less error prone in my opinion. R is 1 based and it drives me nuts to have to switch to Pandas.

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baldfat10y ago

For statistics 1 based is much cleaner and less error prone in my opinion. R is 1 based and it drives me nuts to have to switch to Pandas.

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