From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:45:49 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Array index history In-Reply-To: <20170608125644.GG7802@yeono.kjorling.se> References: <201706080227.v582R5D9056395@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <40F0B6B0-73C3-48CD-B75F-84CA6095433B@cheswick.com> <20170608125644.GG7802@yeono.kjorling.se> Message-ID: On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 8 Jun 2017 08:49 -0400, from ches at cheswick.com (William Cheswick): > > When he tests a microphone, Don Knuth says: > > > > “Testing zero, one, two.” > > As opposed to Niklaus Wirth, who presumably would rather say: > > "Testing lower bound, lower bound plus one, lower bound plus two." "Testing: the set N, defined so that there are some elements 'b' and 'e' in N with known values taken from the integers and such that b less than or equal 'e' and every other element is both the natural successor of an element in N and less than or equal to 'e'." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: