From: "Wayne E. Seguin" <wayneeseguin@...>
Date: 2007-07-20T00:24:36+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe

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On Jul 18, 2007, at 20:10 , Steven Lumos wrote:
> No! This is a systematic lie used to defend a convention that was
> adopted for purely practical reasons.  It's like claiming that
> segmented memory is more natural to mathematicians.  Mathematicians
> and even Computer Scientists consistently use 1, e.g.
> <snip>

I am a (US) Mathematician as are several of my close friends and we  
all use 0 based indexing almost exclusively in our Mathematics work.  
That said I do have to admit we all deal mainly in various branches  
of Mathematical Logic.

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