Python "why" questions

[Roald de Vries]

On Aug 7, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Nobody wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:48:32 +0200, News123 wrote:
>
>>> "Common sense" is wrong.  There are many compelling advantages to
>>> numbering from zero instead of one:
>>>
>>>  http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1950
>>
>> It makes sense in assembly language and even in many byte code  
>> languages.
>> It makes sense if you look at the internal representation of unsigned
>> numbers (which might become an index)
>
> It also makes sense mathematically. E.g. for an MxN array stored as a
> 1-dimensional array, the element a[j][i] is at index
>
> 	j * N + i

Nice example!