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From: atbowler@watmath.waterloo.edu (Alan T. Bowler [SDG])
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code
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Date: 23 Sep 88 03:40:55 GMT
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In article <531@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
>Gentlemen >system programmers, surely you too have algorithms that are
>more accurately expressed with arrays from other than base zero?

I feel like the world has gone through some strange warp.  Back when I
was studying numerical analysis the complaint from the mathematicians
and numerical analysts was about how awkward it was to code algorithms
in Fortran-IV because it used origin 1 indexing and origin 0 would
clearly have been so much more "natural".