From: Steven Lumos <steven@...>
Date: 2007-07-20T04:19:35+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe

"Wayne E. Seguin" <wayneeseguin@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.

I stand by my claim in spite of a pair of anecdotal reports.  Don't
make me survey your papers. :-) (Actually, I can't find many, if any,
publications for either of you.  I'm not saying that means anything.)

Steve

P.S. If this is you then I suspect we may have mutual acquaintances:
http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT5885158